A Database for Handwriting Recognition Research in Sinhala Language

This article presents a database of images of handwritten city names. The aim is to provide a standard database for Sinhala handwriting recognition research. This database contains about 15,000 images of about 500 city names of Sri Lanka. These images are obtained from the addresses of live mail so that the writers had no idea that they would be used for this purpose. Also, these are unconstrained handwriting images unlike the images collected using prescribed forms in laboratory environment. The images are divided into two groups, training set and testing set. This enables the comparison of results of different researches and serves the purpose of being a standard database.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICDAR
• Authors: H. C. Fernando, N. D. Kodikara, Sanjika Hewavitharana
• Keywords: City Names, Document Analysis, ICDAR 2003, Images, Standard Database