Arabic Character Recognition based on Statistical Features - A Comparative Study
Mariem Gargouri Kchaou, Slim Kanoun, Fouad Slimane, Souhir Bouaziz Affes
2013
Abstract
This paper presents a comparative study for Arabic optical character recognition techniques according to statistic approach. So, the current work consists in experimenting character image characterization and matching to show the most robust and reliable techniques. For features extraction phase, we test invariant moments, affine moment invariants, Tsirikolias–Mertzios moments, Zernike moments, Fourier-Mellin transform and Fourier descriptors. And for the classification phase, we use k-Nearest Neighbors and Support Vector Machine. Our data collection encloses 3 datasets. The first contains 2320 multi-font and multi-scale printed samples. The second contains 9280 multi-font, multi-scale and multi-oriented printed samples. And, the third contains 2900 handwritten samples which are extracted from the IFN/ENIT data. The aim was to cover a wide spectrum of Arabic characters complexity. The best performance rates found for each dataset are 99.91%, 99.26% and 66.68% respectively.
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Gargouri Kchaou M., Kanoun S., Slimane F. and Bouaziz Affes S. (2013). Arabic Character Recognition based on Statistical Features - A Comparative Study . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8565-41-9, pages 281-284. DOI: 10.5220/0004265602810284
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@conference{icpram13,
author={Mariem Gargouri Kchaou and Slim Kanoun and Fouad Slimane and Souhir Bouaziz Affes},
title={Arabic Character Recognition based on Statistical Features - A Comparative Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2013},
pages={281-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004265602810284},
isbn={978-989-8565-41-9},
}
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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Arabic Character Recognition based on Statistical Features - A Comparative Study
SN - 978-989-8565-41-9
AU - Gargouri Kchaou M.
AU - Kanoun S.
AU - Slimane F.
AU - Bouaziz Affes S.
PY - 2013
SP - 281
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0004265602810284