Data in Brief (Sep 2015)

Data set for Tifinagh handwriting character recognition

  • Omar Bencharef,
  • Younes Chihab,
  • Nouredine Mousaid,
  • Mustapha Oujaoura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2015.04.008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. C
pp. 11 – 13

Abstract

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The Tifinagh alphabet-IRCAM is the official alphabet of the Amazigh language widely used in North Africa [1]. It includes thirty-one basic letter and two letters each composed of a base letter followed by the sign of labialization. Normalized only in 2003 (Unicode) [2], ICRAM-Tifinagh is a young character repertoire. Which needs more work on all levels. In this context we propose a data set for handwritten Tifinagh characters composed of 1376 image; 43 Image For Each character. The dataset can be used to train a Tifinagh character recognition system, or to extract the meaning characteristics of each character.