Title
Computerized Paleography: Tools For Historical Manuscripts
Abstract
The Digital Age has brought with it large-scale digitization of historical records. The modern scholar of history or of other disciplines is often faced today with hundreds of thousands of readily-available and potentially-relevant full or fragmentary documents, but without computer aids that would make it possible to find the sought-after needles in the proverbial haystack of online images. The problems are even more acute when documents are handwritten, since optical character recognition does not provide quality results.We consider two tools: (1) a handwriting matching tool that is used to join together fragments of the same scribe, and (2) a paleographic classification tool that matches a given document to a large set of paleographic samples. Both tools are carefully designed not only to provide a high level of accuracy, but also to provide a clean and concise justification of the inferred results. This last requirement engenders challenges, such as sparsity of the representation, for which existing solutions are inappropriate for document analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116481
2011 18TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
handwriting recognition,image classification,history,histograms,vectors,prototypes,dictionaries,optical character recognition,visualization
Computer vision,Digitization,Haystack,Handwriting,Computer science,Visualization,Optical character recognition,Handwriting recognition,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Palaeography
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
3
0.42
References 
Authors
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lior Wolf15501352.38
Liza Potikha230.42
Nachum Dershowitz32818473.00
Roni Shweka4303.96
Yaacov Choueka5241202.83