Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
11-2017
Publication Title
Workshop on Historical Image Processing
Abstract
This paper describes a set of hand-isolated character samples selected from securely dated manuscripts written in Syriac between 300 and 1300 C.E., which are being made available for research purposes. The collection can be used for a number of applications, including ground truth for character segmentation and form analysis for paleographical dating. Several applications based upon convolutional neural networks demonstrate the possibilities of the data set.
Keywords
Syriac, paleography, historical manuscripts, handwriting style
DOI
doi.org/10.1145/3151509.3151513
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rights
“Licensed to Smith College and distributed CC-BY under the Smith College Faculty Open Access Policy.”
Recommended Citation
Howe, Nicholas; Dai, Minyue; and Penn, Michael, "Isolated Character Forms from Dated Syriac Manuscripts" (2017). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/135
Comments
CCS CONCEPTS • Applied computing → Digital libraries and archives; Arts and humanities
Author’s submitted manuscript.