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This paper describes the online Arabic writer identification competition held at ICDAR 2021 Workshop on Arabic and derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2021, 4th edition). This first competition of online writer identification uses the ADAB database with online Arabic handwritten words which represent the Tunisian town names. Four systems are participating in the competition. The systems are evaluated on test data that are unknown to the participants. The systems are compared based on the writer identification rate. A detailed description of the systems and the results achieved are presented.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Tunisia under the grant agreement number LR11ES4.

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  1. University of Sousse, ISITCom, 4011, Sousse, Tunisia

    Thameur Dhieb

  2. REsearch Groups in Intelligent Machines (REGIM Lab), National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), University of Sfax, BP 1173, 3038, Sfax, Tunisia

    Thameur Dhieb, Houcine Boubaker, Sourour Njah, Mounir Ben Ayed & Adel M. Alimi

  3. High Institute of Commerce of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Sourour Njah

  4. Computer Sciences and Communication Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Mounir Ben Ayed

  5. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Adel M. Alimi

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Dhieb, T., Boubaker, H., Njah, S., Ben Ayed, M., Alimi, A.M. (2021). ASAR 2021 Online Arabic Writer Identification Competition. In: Barney Smith, E.H., Pal, U. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86198-8_25

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