Slimane, FouadSchaßan, TorstenMärgner, Volker2014-08-182014-08-182014-08-182014https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/105873In this paper, we describe a novel method for handwriting style identification. A handwriting style can be common to one or several writer. It can represent also a handwriting style used in a period of the history or for specific document. Our method is based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) using different kind of features computed using a combined fixed-length horizontal and vertical sliding window moving over a document page. For each writing style a GMM is built and trained using page images. At the recognition phase, the system returns log-likelihood scores. The GMM model with the highest score is selected. Experiments using page images from historical German document collection demonstrate good performance results. The identification rate of the GMM-based system developed with six historical handwriting style is 100%.handwriting styleGMMslocal featuressliding windowhistorical German document collectiontranscriptiontext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper