Scribe Attribution for Early Medieval Handwriting by Means of Letter Extraction and Classification and a Voting Procedure for Larger Pieces
Mats Dahllöf
The present study investigates a method for the attribution of scribal hands, inspired by traditional palaeography in being based on comparison letter shapes. system was developed and evaluated early medieval Caroline minuscule manuscripts. generation prediction page image involves writing identification, segmentation, classification. then uses proposals to predict hand behind page. Letters sequences connected letters are identified means component labeling split into letter-size pieces. (and character) makes use dataset containing instances b, d, p, q, cut out from manuscript pages whose origin is known. represented features capturing distribution foreground. Cosine similarity used nearest neighbor finally predicted voting procedure taking highest scoring letter-level hits as its input. This five different hands reached an accuracy above 99% four them 87% fifth significantly more difficult one. single top listed correctly 83% cases.