Chinese Writer Identification Using Contour-Directional Feature and Character Pair Similarity Measurement

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Abstract

The key issue of Chinese writer identification is the uncertainty of the text content in the query and reference handwriting images. We propose a method for Chinese writer identification using Contour-directional Feature (CDF) and Character Pair Similarity Measurement (CPSM). CDFs are extracted from the query and reference handwriting images and are used to calculate the text-independent similarity between the query and reference handwriting images. Meanwhile, characters appearing in both the query and reference handwriting images are also utilized to measure the similarity of character pairs. The text-independent similarity and the similarity of character pairs are fused to the final similarity between the query and reference handwriting images. The proposed method is evaluated on two public datasets. The best Top-1 identification accuracy on the HIT-MW and CASIA-2.1 dataset reaches 96.7% and 97.9% respectively, which outperforms other previous approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages119-124
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538635865
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 9 Nov 201715 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
Volume1
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period9/11/1715/11/17

Keywords

  • Character pair similarity measurement
  • Chinese writer identification
  • Contour-directional feature
  • Keypoint matching
  • Similarity fusion

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