Indic Scripts: History, Typology, Study

Towards Spotting and Recognition of Handwritten Words in Indic Scripts

2018 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) ◽

10.1109/icfhr-2018.2018.00015 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kartik Dutta ◽

Praveen Krishnan ◽

Minesh Mathew ◽

C.V. Jawahar

Keyword(s):

Indic Scripts

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Online handwriting recognition systems for Indic and non-Indic scripts: a review

Artificial Intelligence Review ◽

10.1007/s10462-020-09886-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Harjeet Singh ◽

R. K. Sharma ◽

V. P. Singh

Keyword(s):

Handwriting Recognition ◽

Online Handwriting Recognition ◽

Recognition Systems ◽

Indic Scripts ◽

Online Handwriting

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Text Segmentation from Bangla Land Map Images

Image Processing & Communications ◽

10.1515/ipc-2015-0003 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 21-34

Author(s):

Samit Biswas ◽

Amit Kumar Das ◽

Bhabatosh Chanda

Keyword(s):

Delaunay Triangulation ◽

Spoken Language ◽

Single Component ◽

Text Segmentation ◽

Spatial Form ◽

Regional Language ◽

Complex Background ◽

The World ◽

Segmentation Approach ◽

Indic Scripts

Abstract Text segmentation from land map images is a non-trivial task as map components are interleaved and overlapped in a complex spatial form. The characters in a word in most of the Indic languages, including Bangla (the 6th most spoken language in the world), are connected through a headline (”matra” or ”shirorekha”) which makes the corresponding word a single component. It has been observed that the Delaunay triangulation (DT) forms a number of small triangles on the text regions compared to other regions of the map - a property very much discernible for Bangla (and some other Indic scripts) texts. This property is primarily exploited here to segment text from the complex background of the land map images. The proposed text segmentation approach is tested and compared with an existing method on a collected dataset of paper map images( containing Bangla, an Indian regional language texts) and the results are encouraging.

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