• An interactive annotation tool for indexing Historical manuscripts 

      Khader H.; Al-Marridi A.; Alpona H.; Kunhoth S.; Hassaine A.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      When a huge collection of digitized old manuscripts are obtained as a part of their preservation, an appropriate indexing technique is essential to search through them. In this paper, we have proposed a novel tool to assist ...
    • Automatic handedness detection from off-line handwriting 

      Al-Maadeed,Somaya; Ferjani F.; Elloumi S.; Hassaine A.; Jaoua A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      In forensics, the handedness detection or the classification of writers into left or right-handed helps investigators focusing more on a certain category of suspects. However, only a few studies have been carried out in ...
    • Automatic prediction of age, gender, and nationality in offline handwriting 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Hassaine A. ( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2014 , Article)
      The classification of handwriting into different categories, such as age, gender, and nationality, has several applications. In forensics, handwriting classification helps investigators focus on a certain category of ...
    • ICDAR 2013 competition on gender prediction from handwriting 

      Hassaine A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Aljaam J.; Jaoua A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The prediction of gender from handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...
    • ICDAR 2013 competition on handwriting stroke recovery from offline data 

      Hassaine A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      Stroke recovery from offline handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...
    • Novel geometric features for off-line writer identification 

      Al-Maadeed, S.; Hassaine, A.; Bouridane, A.; Tahir, M.A. ( Springer Verlag , 2014 , Article)
      Writer identification is an important field in forensic document examination. Typically, a writer identification system consists of two main steps: feature extraction and matching and the performance depends significantly ...
    • Text categorization using weighted hyper rectangular keyword extraction 

      Hassaine A.; Safi Z.; Otaibi J.; Jaoua A. ( IEEE Computer Society , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Text categorization is an important research field that finds many applications nowadays. It is usually performed in two steps: feature extraction and classification. In the feature extraction step, discriminating keywords ...