Binarization Free Layout Analysis for Arabic Historical Documents Using Fully Convolutional Networks

Berat Kurar Barakat, Jihad El-Sana

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Abstract

We present a Fully Convolutional Network based method for layout analysis of non-binarized historical Arabic manuscripts. The document image is segmented into main text and side text regions by dense pixel prediction. Convolutional part of the network can learn useful features from the non-binarized document images and is robust to degradation and uncontrained layouts. We have evaluated the proposed method on a private dataset containing challenging historical Arabic manuscripts to demonstrate it effectiveness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2nd IEEE International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition, ASAR 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages151-155
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538614594
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Oct 2018
Event2nd IEEE International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition, ASAR 2018 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 12 Mar 201814 Mar 2018

Publication series

Name2nd IEEE International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition, ASAR 2018

Conference

Conference2nd IEEE International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition, ASAR 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period12/03/1814/03/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Signal Processing
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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