@inproceedings{6f14e8a96c774ecda9b7bbabdee37e72,
title = "Text line segmentation for challenging handwritten document images using fully convolutional network",
abstract = "This paper presents a method for text line segmentation of challenging historical manuscript images. These manuscript images contain narrow interline spaces with touching components, interpenetrating vowel signs and inconsistent font types and sizes. In addition, they contain curved, multi-skewed and multi-directed side note lines within a complex page layout. Therefore, bounding polygon labeling would be very difficult and time consuming. Instead we rely on line masks that connect the components on the same text line. Then these line masks are predicted using a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN). In the literature, FCN has been successfully used for text line segmentation of regular handwritten document images. The present paper shows that FCN is useful with challenging manuscript images as well. Using a new evaluation metric that is sensitive to over segmentation as well as under segmentation, testing results on a publicly available challenging handwritten dataset are comparable with the results of a previous work on the same dataset.",
keywords = "Fully convolutional network, challenging historical document, text line segmentation",
author = "Berat Barakat and Ahmad Droby and Majeed Kassis and Jihad El-Sana",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2018 ; Conference date: 05-08-2018 Through 08-08-2018",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1109/ICFHR-2018.2018.00072",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "374--379",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2018 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2018",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}