This paper presents a technique for font size independent OCR of Noori Nastaleeq. Most of the existing OCRs for Noori Nastaleeq support only a single font size. Urdu government documents, news papers, magazines and books written in Noori Nastaleeq font style, has varying range of font sizes. The presented technique in this paper gives support for the font size independence for Noori Nastaleeq O...

In this work we presented a mathematical model for the readers’ emotional state responses triggered by font style, type and color. It is based on multiple regression analysis of the repeated measures from 45 students and for 35 textual stimuli using the Self-Assessment Manikin test. Based on the dimensional theory of emotions, we propose a model on how emotional dimensions Pleasure, Arousal, an...

This paper illustrates how font, viewed as a component of a brand’s visual equity, can enhance a brand’s identity and build its market share. In a two-alternative forced-choice task, brands, covering 10 different product categories, were chosen twice as frequently when they were in an appropriate font relative to when they were not. This finding was replicated with no diminution of the effect e...

Chinese font recognition (CFR) has gained significant attention in recent years. However, due to the sparsity of labeled font samples and the structural complexity of Chinese characters, CFR is still a challenging task. In this paper, a DropRegion method is proposed to generate a large number of stochastic variant font samples whose local regions are selectively disrupted and an inception font ...

In this paper, we propose a novel method based on the second-order conditional maximum a posteriori (CMAP) to improve the performance of the global soft decision in speech enhancement. The conventional global soft decision scheme is found through investigation to have a disadvantage in that the global speech absence probability (GSAP) in that scheme is adjusted by a fixed parameter, which could...

The aim of the present study was to determine whether physical attributes of a memory representation would affect explicit memory performance and, if so, what type of factors would affect the size of a perceptual match effect. Subjects studied words in different, uncommon fonts and were later asked whether the word had been studied earlier. Words could be re-presented in the original font, a fo...

The X Render Extension provides a new glyph rendering architecture based on client-side glyph and font management. While this resolves many tough technical issues relating to the extension design, it places the burden of rasterizing, configuring and customizing font usage on every X client. The Xft library was written to provide X applications a convenient interface to the FreeType font rasteri...

Even if font usage plays an important role in Document Image Analysis (DIA), recognition systems generally take the concept of font management in a weaker sense than in the production cycle. With the point of view of the document recognition community, we show how typographic information (characters bitmap, metrics, etc.) can improve existing analysis methods. After a brief survey of font recog...