PT Unknown AU Alicia Fornes Josep Llados TI A Symbol-dependent Writer Identifcation Approach in Old Handwritten Music Scores BT 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition PY 2010 BP 634 EP 639 DI 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.104 AB Writer identification consists in determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper we introduce a symbol-dependent approach for identifying the writer of old music scores, which is based on two symbol recognition methods. The main idea is to use the Blurred Shape Model descriptor and a DTW-based method for detecting, recognizing and describing the music clefs and notes. The proposed approach has been evaluated in a database of old music scores, achieving very high writer identification rates. ER