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Despite the impressive zero-shot capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they often struggle in downstream tasks with distribution shifts from the pre-training data. Few-Shot Adaptation (FSA-VLM) has emerged as a key solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 SuBeen Lee , GilHan Park , WonJun Moon , Hyun Seok Seong , Jae-Pil Heo

Handwritten word retrieval is vital for digital archives but remains challenging due to large handwriting variability and cross-lingual semantic gaps. While large vision-language models offer potential solutions, their prohibitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Fangke Chen , Tianhao Dong , Sirry Chen , Guobin Zhang , Yishu Zhang , Yining Chen

Many recent few-shot learning methods concentrate on designing novel model architectures. In this paper, we instead show that with a simple backbone convolutional network we can even surpass state-of-the-art classification accuracy. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Wei Shen , Ziqiang Shi , Jun Sun

Despite the recent advances in large-scale diffusion models, little progress has been made on the layout-to-image (L2I) synthesis task. Current L2I models either suffer from poor editability via text or weak alignment between the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yumeng Li , Margret Keuper , Dan Zhang , Anna Khoreva

Currently, the destruction of the sequence structure in handwritten text has become one of the main bottlenecks restricting the recognition task. The typical situations include additional specific markers (the text swapping modification)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zi-Rui Wang

The goal of text spotting is to perform text detection and recognition in an end-to-end manner. Although the diversity of luminosity and orientation in scene texts has been widely studied, the font diversity and shape variance of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Xixuan Hao , Aozhong Zhang , Xianze Meng , Bin Fu

We propose to improve text recognition from a new perspective by separating the text content from complex backgrounds. As vanilla GANs are not sufficiently robust to generate sequence-like characters in natural images, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Canjie Luo , Qingxiang Lin , Yuliang Liu , Lianwen Jin , Chunhua Shen

Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems and has been extensively studied in recent years. Although deep neural networks (DNNs) for the FAS task have achieved promising results in intra-dataset experiments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Rizhao Cai , Zhi Li , Renjie Wan , Haoliang Li , Yongjian Hu , Alex Chichung Kot

Handwritten word recognition and spotting of low-resource scripts are difficult as sufficient training data is not available and it is often expensive for collecting data of such scripts. This paper presents a novel cross language platform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Partha Pratim Roy , Akash Mohta , Umapada Pal

Adversarial training is the most empirically successful approach in improving the robustness of deep neural networks for image classification.For text classification, however, existing synonym substitution based adversarial attacks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xiaosen Wang , Yichen Yang , Yihe Deng , Kun He

Handwritten text recognition is challenging because of the virtually infinite ways a human can write the same message. Our fully convolutional handwriting model takes in a handwriting sample of unknown length and outputs an arbitrary stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Felipe Petroski Such , Dheeraj Peri , Frank Brockler , Paul Hutkowski , Raymond Ptucha

Handwriting is a skill learned by humans from a very early age. The ability to develop one's own unique handwriting as well as mimic another person's handwriting is a task learned by the brain with practice. This paper deals with this very…

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While deep neural networks have proven to be a powerful tool for many recognition and classification tasks, their stability properties are still not well understood. In the past, image classifiers have been shown to be vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Rima Alaifari , Giovanni S. Alberti , Tandri Gauksson

Adversarial samples for images have been extensively studied in the literature. Among many of the attacking methods, gradient-based methods are both effective and easy to compute. In this work, we propose a framework to adapt the gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Zhitao Gong , Wenlu Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song , Wei-Shinn Ku

Model distillation enables efficient emulation of frontier large language models (LLMs), creating a need for robust mechanisms to detect when a third-party student model has trained on a teacher model's outputs. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yixuan Even Xu , John Kirchenbauer , Yash Savani , Asher Trockman , Alexander Robey , Tom Goldstein , Fei Fang , J. Zico Kolter

Adversarial training provides a means of regularizing supervised learning algorithms while virtual adversarial training is able to extend supervised learning algorithms to the semi-supervised setting. However, both methods require making…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-17 Takeru Miyato , Andrew M. Dai , Ian Goodfellow

Automatic recognition of historical handwritten manuscripts is a daunting task due to paper degradation over time. Recognition-free retrieval or word spotting is popularly used for information retrieval and digitization of the historical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Anders Hast , Ekta Vats

Handwritten document recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision, due to the various writing styles and complex layouts inherent in handwritten texts. Traditionally, this problem has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Mohammed Hamdan , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in text summarization and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. However, these systems often inherit associative and framing biases from pre-training data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mukur Gupta , Nikhil Reddy Varimalla , Nicholas Deas , Melanie Subbiah , Kathleen McKeown

Change detection is a fundamental task in computer vision that processes a bi-temporal image pair to differentiate between semantically altered and unaltered regions. Large language models (LLMs) have been utilized in various domains for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhenglin Li , Yangchen Huang , Mengran Zhu , Jingyu Zhang , JingHao Chang , Houze Liu