US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Grid Computing for Authentication of Arabic Text

0109038 Elghazawi描述：该奖项旨在支持华盛顿乔治华盛顿大学计算机科学系Tarek El-Ghazawi博士和Mohamed F.埃及开罗艾因夏姆斯大学计算机与信息科学系。 埃及开罗电子研究所（ERI）的Nadia Hegazi博士也将参与该项目。 该项目同时处理两个问题。 一个是阿拉伯手写文本的机器识别，另一个是利用分布式系统来解决通常需要大量超级计算设施的问题。 这项研究的目标是开发一种网格计算方法来识别阿拉伯手写文本，使用基于神经网络和小波的先进技术。 该项目将在阿拉伯文文本识别和网格计算方面取得成果，并将提供解决复杂问题所需的计算资源。范围：该项目支持两名经验丰富的调查人员之间的合作。El-Ghazawi在高性能计算方面拥有丰富的经验，这将涵盖网格计算方面的工作。埃及科学家在各个领域都有经验，包括阿拉伯语文本识别。ERI的参与很重要，因为该研究所可以提供技术救援。 研究的成功将有利于对其他计算密集型问题的研究。它还将为阿拉伯字符识别应用程序的实际原型提供基础，由于书面阿拉伯语的复杂性，这是一个独特的问题。 该项目将包括两国之间的学生交流。 该提案符合INT的目标，即支持在共同感兴趣的领域进行合作研究。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

0109038ElghazawiDescription: This award is to support a collaborative project between Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, Department of Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC and Dr. Mohamed F. Tolba, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Nadia Hegazi of the Electronics Research Institute (ERI) in Cairo, Egypt will also be involved in the project. The project deals with two problems simultaneously. One is machine recognition of Arabic handwritten text, and the other is utilizing distributed systems to solve problems that normally require massive supercomputing facilities. The goal of the research is to develop a grid computing methodology to recognize Arabic handwritten text, using advanced techniques based on neural nets and wavelets. The project will produce results in Arabic text recognition, and in grid computing, and will provide the necessary computational resources to solve a complex problem. Scope: The project supports collaboration between two experienced investigators. El-Ghazawi has extensive experience with high performance computing which would cover the grid computing aspects of the work. The Egyptian scientists have experience in various areas, including Arabic text recognition. The involvement of the ERI is important because of the technical rescues available at that institute. The success of research will benefit research on other problems that are computationally intensive. It also will provide the foundation for practical prototypes for Arabic character recognition applications, which is a unique problem due to the complexities of the written Arabic language. The project will include exchange of students between the two countries. The proposal meets the INT objective of supporting collaborative research in areas of mutual interest. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.