What is Optical Glyph Recognition (OGR)?

[Fabrizio Borgia]

Dear Valerie,
we are absolutely in no rush, since we are still developing the OGR engine,
and it is still far from complete.
As soon as the new material arrives, I'll be happy to run some tests and
show you the result!
Thanks!



2013/10/31 Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>

> SignWriting List
> October 31, 2013
>
> Hello All, Fabrizio, and the OGR Team in Toulouse, France ;-)
>
> Happy to meet you all -
>
> Thank you for this important email, and I am very happy to know about your
> project. I want you to know that I have not forgotten you…but have been
> waiting for a quiet moment to be able to concentrate and to provide you
> with all the feedback and materials you need…So you are in my thoughts, and
> a real answer is coming -  All is well here… Just have to take one step at
> a time… I look forward to more communication this weekend - Val ;-)
>
> ---------
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Fabrizio Borgia <fabrizio.borgia at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> I'd like to take a moment to explain the work of my team (Université
> Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Computer Science Department - "Sapienza"
> University of Rome) in the latest few years.
> We are working at a *Optical Glyph Recogition* (OGR) engine for
> SignWriting.
>
> Well, OGR sounds very much like OCR (which is Optical Character
> Recognition) because they both share the same goal: *the conversion of
> images of text into characters*. In the OGR case, the characters are the
> glyphs.
> Apart from the goal, OGR and OCR have very little in common. The design
> and the implementation of our application is somewhat different from the
> standard OCR design, because we are facing different problems, and
> different datasets.
>
> We know that there's a huge amount of handwritten SW corpora, scattered
> around the world, and we believe that they carry an invaluable knowledge,
> both for the Deaf Community, and for the Research Community. Our goal is to
> make them digital, to *empower their diffusion*, and to *ensure a
> long-lasting existence* for them.
>
> After a very, very thorough design phase, we are developing the OGR
> application (and, in confidence, we are about halfway to go) and *soon we
> will release a footage showing our software in action*.
>
> To make our OGR stronger, we need to test it with diffrent datasets (SW
> texts, pages, etc.) we need your help, dear SW list!
>
>
> *We need any kind of handwritten SW texts, in any digital image format. *
>
> *Optionally, we'd like them to be:*
>
>    - *written in columns*
>    -
> *whithout any segmentation (annotation lines, squares, etc.) from one sign
>    to the following one *
>
> Anyone can send us some material (even spare pages will DEFINITLEY do) or
> point us in the right direction?
> Thanks in advance for your time, from Rome!
>
> --
> Fabrizio Borgia, M.D.
>
> Ph.D. Student
> Sapienza - Università di Roma
> Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
>
> O&M SW Engineering Intern
> SERCO S.p.A.
>
> fabrizio.borgia at gmail.com
> fabrizio.borgia at uniroma1.it
> fabrizio.borgia at serco.com
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-- 
Fabrizio Borgia, M.D.

Ph.D. Student
Sapienza - Università di Roma
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

O&M SW Engineering Intern
SERCO S.p.A.

fabrizio.borgia at gmail.com
fabrizio.borgia at uniroma1.it
fabrizio.borgia at serco.com

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