eprintid: 18161
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 90
dir: disk0/00/01/81/61
datestamp: 2015-04-14 08:09:57
lastmod: 2015-04-22 14:04:22
status_changed: 2015-04-14 08:09:57
type: conferenceObject
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bogacz, Bartosz
creators_name: Gertz, Michael
creators_name: Mara, Hubert
title: Cuneiform Character Similarity Using Graph Representations
subjects: ddc-004
subjects: ddc-490
divisions: i-110300
divisions: i-70800
divisions: i-708000
divisions: i-741030
pres_type: paper
abstract: Motivated by the increased demand for computerized analysis of documents within the Digital Humanities we are developing algorithms for cuneiform tablets, which contain the oldest handwritten script used for more than three millennia. These tablets are typically found in the Middle East and contain a total amount of written words comparable to all documents in Latin or ancient Greek. In previous work we have shown how to extract vector drawings from 3D-models similar to those manually drawn over digital photographs. Both types of drawings share the Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) format representing the cuneiform characters as splines. These splines are transformed into a graph representation and extend these by triangulation. Based on graph kernel methods we show a similarity metric for cuneiform characters, which have higher degrees of freedom than handwriting with ink on paper. An evaluation of the precision and recall of our proposed approach is shown and compared to well-known methods for processing handwriting. Finally a summary and an outlook are given.

date: 2015-02-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00018161
ppn_swb: 1656143135
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-181618
language: eng
bibsort: BOGACZBARTCUNEIFORMC20150209
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Online, Open Access
event_title: Proc. of the 20th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW'15)
event_location: Seggau, Austria
event_dates: 9.-11. Feb. 2015
citation:   Bogacz, Bartosz ; Gertz, Michael ; Mara, Hubert  (2015) Cuneiform Character Similarity Using Graph Representations.  [Conference Item]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18161/1/cvww15_bogacz_gertz_mara_final.pdf