Arabic Online Handwriting Recognition (AOHR)
- 29 June 2017
- journal article
- survey
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Computing Surveys
- Vol. 50 (3), 1-35
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3060620
Abstract
This article comprehensively surveys Arabic Online Handwriting Recognition (AOHR). We address the challenges posed by online handwriting recognition, including ligatures, dots and diacritic problems, online/offline touching of text, and geometric variations. Then we present a general model of an AOHR system that incorporates the different phases of an AOHR system. We summarize the main AOHR databases and identify their uses and limitations. Preprocessing techniques that are used in AOHR, viz. normalization, smoothing, de-hooking, baseline identification, and delayed stroke processing, are presented with illustrative examples. We discuss different techniques for Arabic online handwriting segmentation at the character and morpheme levels and identify their limitations. Feature extraction techniques that are used in AOHR are discussed and their challenges identified. We address the classification techniques of non-cursive (characters and digits) and cursive Arabic online handwriting and analyze their applications. We discuss different classification techniques, viz. structural approaches, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Fuzzy SVM, Neural Networks, Hidden Markov Model, Genetic algorithms, decision trees, and rule-based systems, and analyze their performance. Post-processing techniques are also discussed. Several tables that summarize the surveyed publications are provided for ease of reference and comparison. We summarize the current limitations and difficulties of AOHR and future directions of research.Keywords
Funding Information
- King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology
- Science 8 Technology Unit at King Fahd University of Petroleum 8 Minerals
- National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (11-INF2153-4)
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