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Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open problem at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The main challenges, when dealing with historical manuscripts, are due to the preservation of the paper support,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Silvia Cascianelli , Vittorio Pippi , Martin Maarand , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

The digitization of historical manuscripts presents significant challenges for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems, particularly when dealing with small, author-specific collections that diverge from the training data distributions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vittorio Pippi , Konstantina Nikolaidou , Silvia Cascianelli , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Rita Cucchiara , Marcus Liwicki

Unconstrained text recognition is an important computer vision task, featuring a wide variety of different sub-tasks, each with its own set of challenges. One of the biggest promises of deep neural networks has been the convergence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Mohamed Yousef , Khaled F. Hussain , Usama S. Mohammed

Automatically recognizing the layout of handwritten documents is an important step towards useful extraction of information from those documents. The most common application is to feed downstream applications such as automatic text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Lorenzo Quirós , Enrique Vidal

In this paper, we face the problem of offline handwritten text recognition (HTR) in historical documents when few labeled samples are available and some of them contain errors in the train set. Three main contributions are developed. First…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 José Carlos Aradillas , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Pablo M. Olmos

Unconstrained handwritten text recognition is a major step in most document analysis tasks. This is generally processed by deep recurrent neural networks and more specifically with the use of Long Short-Term Memory cells. The main drawbacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Denis Coquenet , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

Large language models (LLMs) achieve optimal utility when their responses are grounded in external knowledge sources. However, real-world documents, such as annual reports, scientific papers, and clinical guidelines, frequently combine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Chi Zhang , Qiyang Chen , Mengqi Zhang

This competition investigates the performance of large-scale retrieval of historical document images based on writing style. Based on large image data sets provided by cultural heritage institutions and digital libraries, providing a total…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Vincent Christlein , Anguelos Nicolaou , Mathias Seuret , Dominique Stutzmann , Andreas Maier

The plethora of digitalised historical document datasets released in recent years has rekindled interest in advancing the field of handwriting pattern recognition. In the same vein, a recently published data set, known as ARDIS, presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Mengqiao Zhao , Andre G. Hochuli , Abbas Cheddad

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a task of central importance in the field of document image understanding. State-of-the-art methods for HTR require the use of extensive annotated sets for training, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petros Georgoulas Wraight , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos , George Retsinas

We describe team ielab from CSIRO and The University of Queensland's approach to the 2023 TREC Clinical Trials Track. Our approach was to use neural rankers but to utilise Large Language Models to overcome the issue of lack of training data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Shengyao Zhuang , Bevan Koopman , Guido Zuccon

Citation intention Classification (CIC) tools classify citations by their intention (e.g., background, motivation) and assist readers in evaluating the contribution of scientific literature. Prior research has shown that pretrained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zeren Shui , Petros Karypis , Daniel S. Karls , Mingjian Wen , Saurav Manchanda , Ellad B. Tadmor , George Karypis

When extracting information from handwritten documents, text transcription and named entity recognition are usually faced as separate subsequent tasks. This has the disadvantage that errors in the first module affect heavily the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Manuel Carbonell , Mauricio Villegas , Alicia Fornés , Josep Lladós

The ATLAS collaboration defines methods, establishes procedures, and organises advisory groups to manage the publication processes of scientific papers, conference papers, and public notes. All stages are managed through web systems,…

Recently, text detection and recognition in natural scenes are becoming increasing popular in the computer vision community as well as the document analysis community. However, majority of the existing ideas, algorithms and systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Xinyu Zhou , Shuchang Zhou , Cong Yao , Zhimin Cao , Qi Yin

Various data mining tasks have been proposed to study Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms like Stack Overflow. The relatedness between some of these tasks provides useful learning signals to each other via Multi-Task Learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zizheng Lin , Haowen Ke , Ngo-Yin Wong , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song , Huan Zhao , Junpeng Ye

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities aims to digitize its Medieval Latin Dictionary. This dictionary entails record cards referring to lemmas in medieval Latin, a low-resource language. A crucial step of the digitization process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Philipp Koch , Gilary Vera Nuñez , Esteban Garces Arias , Christian Heumann , Matthias Schöffel , Alexander Häberlin , Matthias Aßenmacher

Tables present summarized and structured information to the reader, which makes table structure extraction an important part of document understanding applications. However, table structure identification is a hard problem not only because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Saqib Ali Khan , Syed Muhammad Daniyal Khalid , Muhammad Ali Shahzad , Faisal Shafait

AI systems have achieved remarkable success in processing text and relational data, yet visual document processing remains relatively underexplored. Whereas traditional systems require OCR transcriptions to convert these visual documents…

In recent years research has been producing an important effort to encode the digital image content. Most of the adopted paradigms only focus on local features and lack in information about location and relationships between them. To fill…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino