Paper Info
Title
Computerized Counting of Individuals in Ottoman Population Registers with Deep Learning
Abstract
The digitalization of historical documents continues to gain pace for further processing and extract meanings from these documents. Page segmentation and layout analysis are crucial for historical document analysis systems. Errors in these steps will create difficulties in the information retrieval processes. Degradation of documents, digitization errors and varying layout styles complicate the segmentation of historical documents. The properties of Arabic scripts such as connected letters, ligatures, diacritics and different writing styles make it even more challenging to process Arabic historical documents. In this study, we developed an automatic system for counting registered individuals and assigning them to populated places by using a CNN-based architecture. To evaluate the performance of our system, we created a labeled dataset of registers obtained from the first wave of population registers of the Ottoman Empire held between the 1840s–1860s. We achieved promising results for classifying different types of objects and counting the individuals and assigning them to populated places.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/978-3-030-57058-3_20
DAS
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yekta Said Can101.01
Mustafa Erdem Kabadayı200.34