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Classification des écritures manuscrites du point de vue de la reconnaissance de scripteur

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Auteur / Autrice : Imran-Ahmed Siddiqi
Direction : Nicole Vincent
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Informatique
Date : Soutenance en 2009
Etablissement(s) : Paris 5

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The problem of identifying the writer of a handwritten document image has been an active research area over the last few years and enjoys applications in forensic and historical document analysis. We have developed an effective method for automatic writer identification and verification from unconstrained handwritten text images. Our method relies on two different aspects of writing: the presence of redundant patterns in the writing and its visual attributes. Based on the hypothesis that handwriting carries certain patterns that an individual would use frequently as he writes, we look to extract these patterns by analyzing small writing fragments and grouping similar patterns into clusters. In fact this corresponds more to the redundancy of writing gestures than writing shapes. These clusters are determined either for each of the writers separately or, for a group of writers generating a universal set of patterns. The writing in question is then compared to the produced clusters. We next exploit two important visual attributes of writing, the orientation and curvature, which enable to distinguish one writing from another. These attributes are extracted by computing a set of features from writing samples at different levels of observation. Two writings are then compared by computing distances between their respective features. Finally, we combine the two facets of handwriting to characterize the writer of a handwritten sample. The proposed methodology, evaluated on modern as well as ancient writings exhibited promising results on tasks of writer recognition and handwriting classification.