Junction detection in handwritten documents and its application to writer identification

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Highlights：

• This paper describes a simple and efficient junction detection method in handwritten documents.

• The proposed junction detection method yields a junction feature in a general manner.

• The proposed junction features and Junclets were applied to writer identification and junction retrieval.

摘要

Highlights•This paper describes a simple and efficient junction detection method in handwritten documents.•The proposed junction detection method yields a junction feature in a general manner.•The proposed junction features and Junclets were applied to writer identification and junction retrieval.

论文关键词：Handwriting recognition,Junction detection,Cross-script,Writer identification,Junclets

论文评审过程：Received 12 December 2014, Revised 21 April 2015, Accepted 26 May 2015, Available online 4 June 2015, Version of Record 19 August 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2015.05.022