Automatic Writer Identification in Medieval Papal Charters
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چکیده
Automatic writer identification and writer verification has recently received significant attention in the field of historical analysis. In this work a short overview of current approaches for writer identification is given. Current state-of-the-art results on contemporary data are related to different approaches for writer verification on a small dataset of datum lines extracted from papal charters of the high middle ages. In the case of these datum lines, a word-based approach is superior to texture-based approaches.
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