Segmentation of ancient and historical gilgit manuscripts

Title

Segmentation of ancient and historical gilgit manuscripts

Creator

Hameed P.; Koikara R.; Sharma C.

Description

The Gilgit manuscripts belong to fifth century A.D. and are oeuvre of texts which deal with Buddhist work. It is one of the oldest manuscripts in the world and is considered to be a milestone in the history of Buddhist works in India. It is a collection of both official and unofficial Buddhist works which are believed to have helped in the evolution of many literatures including Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit. Since this manuscript is almost seventeen centuries old it has not been able to fully decipher the text yet. It has been laminated by the National Archives of India which proves it is one of the most important literatures concerning India. In this paper, we perform character- based image segmentation on Gilgit manuscript in order to simplify and to better identify character in the image of the manuscript. The employed method gives an accuracy of nearly 87%. Springer India 2016.

Source

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol-379, pp. 443-447.

Date

2016-01-01

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Subject

Buddhist works; Character- based; Gilgit manuscripts; Segmentation

Coverage

Hameed P., Department of CSE, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Koikara R., Department of CSE, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Sharma C., IEEE Member, Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 21945357; ISBN: 978-813222516-4

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Conference paper

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2517-1_42

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