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Developing an automatic signature verification system is challenging and demands a large number of training samples. This is why synthetic handwriting generation is an emerging topic in document image analysis. Some handwriting synthesizers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Miguel A. Ferrer , Sukalpa Chanda , Moises Diaz , Chayan Kr. Banerjee , Anirban Majumdar , Cristina Carmona-Duarte , Parikshit Acharya , Umapada Pal

Large-scale multitask benchmarks have driven rapid progress in language modeling, yet most emphasize high-resource languages such as English, leaving Bengali underrepresented. We present BnMMLU, a comprehensive benchmark for measuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Saman Sarker Joy , Swakkhar Shatabda

Although research on emotion classification has significantly progressed in high-resource languages, it is still infancy for resource-constrained languages like Bengali. However, unavailability of necessary language processing tools and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Avishek Das , Omar Sharif , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque , Iqbal H. Sarker

In recent years, Sentiment Analysis (SA) and Emotion Recognition (ER) have been increasingly popular in the Bangla language, which is the seventh most spoken language throughout the entire world. However, the language is structurally…

Segmentation of Arabic manuscripts into lines of text and words is an important step to make recognition systems more efficient and accurate. The problem of segmentation into text lines is solved since there are carefully annotated dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hakim Bouchal , Ahror Belaid

Bengali is an underrepresented language in NLP research. However, it remains a challenge due to its unique linguistic structure and computational constraints. In this work, we systematically investigate the challenges that hinder Bengali…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shimanto Bhowmik , Tawsif Tashwar Dipto , Md Sazzad Islam , Sheryl Hsu , Tahsin Reasat

In this paper, we present TituLLMs, the first large pretrained Bangla LLMs, available in 1b and 3b parameter sizes. Due to computational constraints during both training and inference, we focused on smaller models. To train TituLLMs, we…

Hand segmentation and detection in truly unconstrained RGB-based settings is important for many applications. However, existing datasets are far from sufficient in terms of size and variety due to the infeasibility of manual annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Fanqing Lin , Brian Price , Tony Martinez

While the NLP community is generally aware of resource disparities among languages, we lack research that quantifies the extent and types of such disparity. Prior surveys estimating the availability of resources based on the number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Xinyan Velocity Yu , Akari Asai , Trina Chatterjee , Junjie Hu , Eunsol Choi

This paper presents a high-quality dataset for evaluating the quality of Bangla word embeddings, which is a fundamental task in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Despite being the 7th most-spoken language in the world, Bangla…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Mousumi Akter , Souvika Sarkar , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

Hidden Markov model based various phoneme recognition methods for Bengali language is reviewed. Automatic phoneme recognition for Bengali language using multilayer neural network is reviewed. Usefulness of multilayer neural network over…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Sadia Tasnim Swarna , Shamim Ehsan , Md. Saiful Islam , Marium E Jannat

BNLP is an open source language processing toolkit for Bengali language consisting with tokenization, word embedding, POS tagging, NER tagging facilities. BNLP provides pre-trained model with high accuracy to do model based tokenization,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Sagor Sarker

Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) translation represents a low-resource NLP task due to the lack of large-scale datasets that address sentence-level translation. Correspondingly, existing research in this field has been limited to word and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Neelavro Saha , Rafi Shahriyar , Nafis Ashraf Roudra , Saadman Sakib , Annajiat Alim Rasel

Bangla, the seventh most widely spoken language worldwide with 300 million native speakers, faces digital under-representation due to limited resources and lack of annotated datasets. Stemming, a critical preprocessing step in language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Abhijit Paul , Mashiat Amin Farin , Sharif Md. Abdullah , Ahmedul Kabir , Zarif Masud , Shebuti Rayana

Image-based algorithmic software segmentation is an increasingly important topic in many medical fields. Algorithmic segmentation is used for medical three-dimensional visualization, diagnosis or treatment support, especially in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Jürgen Wallner , Irene Mischak , Jan Egger

At present Automatic Speaker Recognition system is a very important issue due to its diverse applications. Hence, it becomes absolutely necessary to obtain models that take into consideration the speaking style of a person, vocal tract…

Bangla Sign Language Translation (BdSLT) has been severely constrained so far as the language itself is very low resource. Standard sentence level dataset creation for BdSLT is of immense importance for developing AI based assistive tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Husne Ara Rubaiyeat , Hasan Mahmud , Md Kamrul Hasan

Code-mixing is a well-studied linguistic phenomenon when two or more languages are mixed in text or speech. Several datasets have been build with the goal of training computational models for code-mixing. Although it is very common to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Md Nishat Raihan , Dhiman Goswami , Antara Mahmud , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Marcos Zampieri

In this study, we introduce LoopDB, which is a challenging loop closure dataset comprising over 1000 images captured across diverse environments, including parks, indoor scenes, parking spaces, as well as centered around individual objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mohammad-Maher Nakshbandi , Ziad Sharawy , Dorian Cojocaru , Sorin Grigorescu

This paper presents a Devnagari Numerical recognition method based on statistical discriminant functions. 17 geometric features based on pixel connectivity, lines, line directions, holes, image area, perimeter, eccentricity, solidity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Vikas J. Dongre , Vijay H. Mankar