An extensive dataset of handwritten central Kurdish isolated characters

Rebin M Ahmed; Tarik A Rashid; Polla Fatah; Abeer Alsadoon; Seyedali Mirjalili

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107479

An extensive dataset of handwritten central Kurdish isolated characters

Data Brief. 2021 Oct 14:39:107479. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107479. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Rebin M Ahmed¹, Tarik A Rashid², Polla Fatah³, Abeer Alsadoon^{4

5

6}, Seyedali Mirjalili^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ IT Department, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq.
² Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Kurdistan-Hawlêr, Erbil, Iraq.
³ Sallahadin University-Erbil, Erbil, Iraq.
⁴ School of Computer Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University (WSU), Sydney, Australia.
⁵ Kent Institute Australia, Sydney, Australia.
⁶ Asia Pacific International College (APIC), Sydney, Australia.
⁷ Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimisation, Torrens University, Australia.
⁸ Yonsei Frontier Lab, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Abstract

To collect the handwritten format of separate Kurdish characters, each character has been printed on a grid of 14 × 9 of A4 paper. Each paper is filled with only one printed character so that the volunteers know what character should be written in each paper. Then each paper has been scanned, spliced, and cropped with a macro in photoshop to make sure the same process is applied for all characters. The grids of the characters have been filled mainly by volunteers of students from multiple universities in Erbil.

Keywords: Central Kurdish; Handwritten characters; Images of characters; Kurdish character recognition.