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This paper surveys current technology and research in the area of digital color imaging. In order to establish the background and lay down terminology, fundamental concepts of color perception and measurement are first presented us-ing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Gaurav Sharma , H. Joel Trussell

Scientific articles published prior to the "age of digitization" (~1997) require Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to transform scanned documents into machine-readable text, a process that often produces errors. We develop a pipeline for…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jill P. Naiman , Morgan G. Cosillo , Peter K. G. Williams , Alyssa Goodman

We present the largest publicly available synthetic OCR benchmark dataset for Indic languages. The collection contains a total of 90k images and their ground truth for 23 Indic languages. OCR model validation in Indic languages require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Naresh Saini , Promodh Pinto , Aravinth Bheemaraj , Deepak Kumar , Dhiraj Daga , Saurabh Yadav , Srihari Nagaraj

In this paper we present a deployed, scalable optical character recognition (OCR) system, which we call Rosetta, designed to process images uploaded daily at Facebook scale. Sharing of image content has become one of the primary ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Fedor Borisyuk , Albert Gordo , Viswanath Sivakumar

Despite the existence of numerous Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools, the lack of comprehensive open-source systems hampers the progress of document digitization in various low-resource languages, including Bengali. Low-resource…

Iterating with new and improved OCR solutions enforces decision making when it comes to targeting the right candidates for reprocessing. This especially applies when the underlying data collection is of considerable size and rather diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Pit Schneider , Yves Maurer

Historical Document Processing is the process of digitizing written material from the past for future use by historians and other scholars. It incorporates algorithms and software tools from various subfields of computer science, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 James P. Philips , Nasseh Tabrizi

The area of Handwritten Signature Verification has been broadly researched in the last decades, but remains an open research problem. The objective of signature verification systems is to discriminate if a given signature is genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Luiz G. Hafemann , Robert Sabourin , Luiz S. Oliveira

The cross-depiction problem is that of recognising visual objects regardless of whether they are photographed, painted, drawn, etc. It is a potentially significant yet under-researched problem. Emulating the remarkable human ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Hongping Cai , Qi Wu , Tadeo Corradi , Peter Hall

This paper explores the use of a learned classifier for post-OCR text correction. Experiments with the Arabic language show that this approach, which integrates a weighted confusion matrix and a shallow language model, improves the vast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ido Kissos , Nachum Dershowitz

The digitization of scanned forms and documents is changing the data sources that enterprises manage. To integrate these new data sources with enterprise data, the current state-of-the-art approach is to convert the images to ASCII text…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-09 Arun Kumar , Christopher Ré

Object recognition is among the fundamental tasks in the computer vision applications, paving the path for all other image understanding operations. In every stage of progress in object recognition research, efforts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aria Salari , Abtin Djavadifar , Xiangrui Liu , Homayoun Najjaran

Traditional image compression methods aim to reconstruct images for human perception, prioritizing visual fidelity over task relevance. In contrast, Coding for Machines focuses on preserving information essential for automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Stefano Della Fiore , Alessandro Gnutti , Marco Dalai , Pierangelo Migliorati , Riccardo Leonardi

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is one of the most emerging imaging modalities that has been used widely in the field of biomedical imaging. From its emergence in 1990's, plenty of hardware and software improvements have been made. Its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ahmadreza Baghaie , Roshan M. D'souza , Zeyun Yu

In real-world recognition/classification tasks, limited by various objective factors, it is usually difficult to collect training samples to exhaust all classes when training a recognizer or classifier. A more realistic scenario is open set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Chuanxing Geng , Sheng-jun Huang , Songcan Chen

The limited capacity to recognize faces under occlusions is a long-standing problem that presents a unique challenge for face recognition systems and even for humans. The problem regarding occlusion is less covered by research when compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Dan Zeng , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

In this paper I have proposed a method to find the major pixel intensity inside the text and thresholding an image accordingly to make it easier to be used for optical character recognition (OCR) models. In our method, instead of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Rohan Lal Kshetry

The objective of the paper is to recognize handwritten samples of lower case Roman script using Tesseract open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine under Apache License 2.0. Handwritten data samples containing isolated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Subhadip Basu

Open Set Recognition (OSR) is about dealing with unknown situations that were not learned by the models during training. In this paper, we provide a survey of existing works about OSR and distinguish their respective advantages and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Atefeh Mahdavi , Marco Carvalho

Optical character recognition (OCR), a process that converts printed or handwritten text into machine-readable form, is widely used in assistive technology for people with blindness and low vision. Yet most evaluations rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Junchi Feng , Nikhil Ballem , Mahya Beheshti , Giles Hamilton-Fletcher , Todd Hudson , Maurizio Porfiri , William H. Seiple , John-Ross Rizzo