@inproceedings{df0f46a1fbd84955b58b6e21e146d5e4,
title = "Towards letter shape prior and paleographic tables estimation in Hebrew first Temple period ostraca",
abstract = "The problem of finding a prototype for typewritten or handwritten characters belongs to a family of “shape prior” estimation problems. In epigraphic research, such priors are derived manually, and constitute the building blocks of “paleographic tables”. Suggestions for automatic solutions to the estimation problem are rare in both the Computer Vision and the OCR/Handwriting Text Recognition communities. We review some of the existing approaches, and propose a new robust scheme, suitable for the challenges of degraded historical documents. This fast and easy to implement method is employed for ancient Hebrew inscriptions dated to the First Temple period.",
keywords = "Allograph, Character templates, Document-specific alphabet, Epigraphy, First Temple period, Glyph extraction, Hebrew ostraca, Historical documents, Ideal/Platonic prototypes, Letter shape prior, Paleographic tables",
author = "Arie Shaus and Eli Turkel",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.; 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP� 2017 ; Conference date: 10-11-2017 Through 11-11-2017",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1145/3151509.3151511",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "13--18",
booktitle = "HIP 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing",
}