Legibility and Aesthetic Analysis of Handwriting

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Abstract

This paper deals with computer-based cognitive analysis towards legibility and aesthetics of a handwritten document. The legible text creates a human perception that the writing can be read effortlessly because of its orthographic clarity. The aesthetic property relates to the beautiful appearance of a handwritten document. In this study, we deal with these properties on offline Bengali handwriting. We formulate both legibility and aesthetic analysis tasks as machine learning problems supervised by the human cognitive system. We employ automatically derived feature-based recurrent neural networks to investigate writing legibility. For aesthetics evaluation, we employ hand-crafted feature-based support vector machines (SVMs). We have collected contemporary Bengali handwritings, on which the subjective legibility and aesthetic scores are provided by human readers. On this corpus containing legibility and aesthetic ground-Truth information, we executed our experiments. The experimental results obtained on various handwritings are encouraging.

First Page

175

Last Page

182

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2017.37

Publication Date

7-2-2017

Comments

Open Access, Green

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