ABSTRACT

The AOLAH databases are contributions from Aswan faculty of engineering to help researchers in the field of online handwriting recognition to build a powerful system to recognize Arabic handwritten script. AOLAH stands for Aswan On-Line Arabic Handwritten where “Aswan” is the small beautiful city located at the south of Egypt, “On-Line” means that the databases are collected the same time as they are written, “Arabic” cause these databases are just collected for Arabic characters, and “Handwritten” written by the natural human hand.

 

REGISTRATION

Participants need to register in order to participate in the competition. Please, fill up this form

https://forms.gle/qyGZ1RzcyWd9ncRy6

including your information.

The email subject contains "ASAR 2021: AOLAH ".

The email core contains:  name, institution and list of other members of your team.

 

INSTRUCTIONS

The competition aims to promote innovation in Online Arabic Character Recognition, as well as to provide objective and fair comparisons among methods. The ranking of participants is based on character recognition rate with respect to test samples. Participants will be given a limited time to submit their results after the competition started. The contest will consist of two phases:

• Phase 1: Participants are provided with training data extracted from AOLAH Database to train their algorithms.

• Phase 2: Registered participants receive the validation and test datasets during ASAR2021 session.

 

DATA DESCRIPTION

• There are two databases; first database is for Arabic characters; it consists of 2,520 sample files written by 90 writers using simulation of a stylus pen and a touch screen. The second database is for Arabic characters’ strokes, it consists of 1,710 sample files for 17 strokes. The second database is extracted from the previous accepted database by extracting strokes from characters

• Writers are volunteers from Aswan faculty of engineering with ages from 18 to 20 years old.

• Natural writings with unrestricted writing styles.

• Each volunteer writes the 28 characters of Arabic script using the GUI.

• It can be used for Arabic online characters recognition

• The developed tools for collecting the data is code acts as a simulation of a stylus pen and a touch screen, pre-processing data samples of characters are also available for researchers.

• The database is available free of charge (for academic and research purposes) to the researchers.​

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