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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-01-20 v1

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.

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@article{arxiv.2101.07542,
  title  = {VML-MOC: Segmenting a multiply oriented and curved handwritten text lines dataset},
  author = {Berat Kurar Barakat and Rafi Cohen and Irina Rabaev and Jihad El-Sana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07542},
  year   = {2021}
}
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