Creating an Atlas over Handwritten Script Signs
Anders Hast, Lasse Mårtensson, Ekta Vats, Raphaela Heil · Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications · 2019
A framework for interactive visualization of script characteristics, as present in the form of handwritten letters, is proposed in this work. The basic idea behind this investigation is to lay the foundations for creating a comprehensive atlas over letter forms extracted from a large collection of handwritten documents, with minimal human guidance. The visualization of the results is based on the atlas metaphor and uses the t-SNE visualization method for creating island-like clusters that can be investigated using the proposed visualization framework. By changing a scale parameter one can investigate the dataset on different levels, i.e different sizes of the clusters.