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The recognition of texts existing in camera-captured images has become an important issue for a great deal of research during the past few decades. This give birth to Scene Character Recognition (SCR) which is an important step in scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Maroua Tounsi , Ikram Moalla , Frank Lebourgeois , Adel M. Alimi

While simulation tools for visible light communication (VLC) with photo detectors (PDs) have been widely investigated, similar tools for optical camera communication (OCC) with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Srivathsan Chakaravarthi Narasimman , Arokiaswami Alphones

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) captures cross-sectional data and is used for the screening, monitoring, and treatment planning of retinal diseases. Technological developments to increase the speed of acquisition often results in systems…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-03 Timothy T. Yu , Da Ma , Jayden Cole , Myeong Jin Ju , Mirza F. Beg , Marinko V. Sarunic

Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) are important tools for obtaining accessible texts. We propose the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) in order to develop pattern recognition algorithms capable of recognizing both normal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Giuseppe Airò Farulla , Tiziana Armano , Anna Capietto , Nadir Murru , Rosaria Rossini

Information Extraction from visually rich documents is a challenging task that has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its importance in several document-control based applications and its widespread commercial value. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mohamed Dhouib , Ghassen Bettaieb , Aymen Shabou

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in multilingual, noisy, and diverse real-world images remains a significant challenge for optical character recognition systems. With the rise of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), there is growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Aryan Gupta , Anupam Purwar

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is crucial to the National Library of Norway's (NLN) digitisation process as it converts scanned documents into machine-readable text. However, for the S\'ami documents in NLN's collection, the OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tita Enstad , Trond Trosterud , Marie Iversdatter Røsok , Yngvil Beyer , Marie Roald

In this paper we introduce a method that significantly reduces the character error rates for OCR text obtained from OCRopus models trained on early printed books. The method uses a combination of cross fold training and confidence based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Christian Reul , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Frank Puppe

In this paper, we address the task of Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for the Telugu script. We present an end-to-end framework that segments the text image, classifies the characters and extracts lines using a language model. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-16 Rakesh Achanta , Trevor Hastie

This research paper introduces a novel word-level Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model specifically designed for digital Urdu text, leveraging transformer-based architectures and attention mechanisms to address the distinct challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Muhammad Ijlal Baig , Hasan Sajid , Muhammad Jawad Khan , Karam Dad Kallu

Capturing fine-grained hand-object interactions is challenging due to severe self-occlusion from closely spaced fingers and the subtlety of in-hand manipulation motions. Existing optical motion capture systems rely on expensive camera…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yutong Liang , Shiyi Xu , Yulong Zhang , Bowen Zhan , He Zhang , Libin Liu

Detecting and recognizing text in natural scene images is a challenging, yet not completely solved task. In re- cent years several new systems that try to solve at least one of the two sub-tasks (text detection and text recognition) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hylke Westerdijk , Ben Blankenborg , Khondoker Ittehadul Islam

In this paper, we propose an effective scene text recognition method using sparse coding based features, called Histograms of Sparse Codes (HSC) features. For character detection, we use the HSC features instead of using the Histograms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Da-Han Wang , Hanzi Wang , Dong Zhang , Jonathan Li , David Zhang

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enables automatic text extraction from scanned or digitized text images, but it also makes it easy to pirate valuable or sensitive text from these images. Previous methods to prevent OCR piracy by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 JiaCheng Deng , Li Dong , Jiahao Chen , Diqun Yan , Rangding Wang , Dengpan Ye , Lingchen Zhao , Jinyu Tian

Recognizing text from natural images is a hot research topic in computer vision due to its various applications. Despite the enduring research of several decades on optical character recognition (OCR), recognizing texts from natural images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Zhanzhan Cheng , Yangliu Xu , Fan Bai , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Shuigeng Zhou

We propose a decentralised view-overlap recognition framework that operates across freely moving cameras without the need of a reference 3D map. Each camera independently extracts, aggregates into a hierarchical structure, and shares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

In recent years, text-image joint pre-training techniques have shown promising results in various tasks. However, in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks, aligning text instances with their corresponding text regions in images poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chen Duan , Pei Fu , Shan Guo , Qianyi Jiang , Xiaoming Wei

Images recorded below the surface of a finger can have more details and be of higher quality than the conventional surface fingerprint images. This is particularly true when the quality of the surface fingerprints is compromised by, for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Egidijus Auksorius , A. Claude Boccara

One of the optimization goals of a particle accelerator is to reach the highest possible beam peak current. For that to happen the electron bunch propagating through the accelerator should be kept relatively short along the direction of its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-28 Aleksander Mielczarek , Dariusz Makowski , Andrzej Napieralski , Christopher Gerth , Bernd Steffen