VML-MOC: Segmenting a multiply oriented and curved handwritten text line dataset

Berat Kurar Barakat, Rafi Cohen, Jihad El-Sana, Irina Rabaev

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Abstract

This paper publishes a natural and very complicated dataset of handwritten documents with multiply oriented and curved text lines, namely VML-MOC dataset. These text lines were written as remarks on the page margins by different writers over the years. They appear at different locations within the orientations that range between 0° and 180° or as curvilinear forms. We evaluate a multi-oriented Gaussian based method to segment these handwritten text lines that are skewed or curved in any orientation. It achieves a mean pixel Intersection over Union score of 80.96% on the test documents. The results are compared with the results of a single-oriented Gaussian based text line segmentation method.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)13-18
JournalProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
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StatePublished - Nov 2019

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