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We address the design of a unified multilingual system for handwriting recognition. Most of multi- lingual systems rests on specialized models that are trained on a single language and one of them is selected at test time. While some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Wassim Swaileh , Yann Soullard , Thierry Paquet

Teaching Computer Science (CS) by having students write programs by hand on paper has key pedagogical advantages: It allows focused learning and requires careful thinking compared to the use of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Md Sazzad Islam , Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya , Christopher D. Manning , Chris Piech

Text Image Machine Translation (TIMT)-the task of translating textual content embedded in images-is critical for applications in accessibility, cross-lingual information access, and real-world document understanding. However, TIMT remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhaopeng Feng , Yupu Liang , Shaosheng Cao , Jiayuan Su , Jiahan Ren , Zhe Xu , Yao Hu , Wenxuan Huang , Jian Wu , Zuozhu Liu

Due to the omnipresence of mobile devices, online handwritten scripts have become the most important feeding input to smartphones and tablet devices. To increase online handwriting recognition performance, deeper neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Hanen Akouaydi , Sourour Njah , Wael Ouarda , Anis Samet , Thameur Dhieb , Mourad Zaied , Adel M. Alimi

Extracting Handwritten text is one of the most important components of digitizing information and making it available for large scale setting. Handwriting Optical Character Reader (OCR) is a research problem in computer vision and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Mohammad Daniyal Shaiq , Musa Dildar Ahmed Cheema , Ali Kamal

The growing need to integrate information from a large number of diverse sources poses significant scalability challenges for data integration systems. These systems often rely on manually written schema mappings, which are complex,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Christopher Buss , Mahdis Safari , Arash Termehchy , Stefan Lee , David Maier

Multi-modal models have shown appealing performance in visual recognition tasks, as free-form text-guided training evokes the ability to understand fine-grained visual content. However, current models cannot be trivially applied to scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yongkun Du , Zhineng Chen , Yuchen Su , Caiyan Jia , Yu-Gang Jiang

This paper proposes a method for recognizing online handwritten mathematical expressions (OnHME) by building a symbol relation tree (SRT) directly from a sequence of strokes. A bidirectional recurrent neural network learns from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Thanh-Nghia Truong , Hung Tuan Nguyen , Cuong Tuan Nguyen , Masaki Nakagawa

The problem of optical character recognition, OCR, has been widely discussed in the literature. Having a hand-written text, the program aims at recognizing the text. Even though there are several approaches to this issue, it is still an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Wei Wang

Modern statistical machine translation (SMT) systems usually use a linear combination of features to model the quality of each translation hypothesis. The linear combination assumes that all the features are in a linear relationship and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Shujian Huang , Huadong Chen , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

This paper introduces a novel method to fine-tune handwriting recognition systems based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are good at modeling long sequences but they tend to overfit over time. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Edgard Chammas , Chafic Mokbel

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is an essential yet challenging task since sign language is performed with the fast and complex movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. %Skeleton Aware Multi-modal Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Maxim Novopoltsev , Leonid Verkhovtsev , Ruslan Murtazin , Dmitriy Milevich , Iuliia Zemtsova

Machine learning models for sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) are expected to adapt post-deployment to recognize new activities and different ways of performing existing ones. To address this need, Online Continual Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yao Zhang , Souza Leite Clayton , Yu Xiao

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has provided unprecedented capabilities for analyzing unstructured text data. However, deploying these models as reliable, robust, and scalable classifiers in production environments presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Doohee You , Andy Parisi , Zach Vander Velden , Lara Dantas Inojosa

Register Transfer Level (RTL) code optimization is crucial for enhancing the efficiency and performance of digital circuits during early synthesis stages. Currently, optimization relies heavily on manual efforts by skilled engineers, often…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Xufeng Yao , Yiwen Wang , Xing Li , Yingzhao Lian , Ran Chen , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan , Hong Xu , Bei Yu

Deep pre-trained language models (e,g. BERT) are effective at large-scale text retrieval task. Existing text retrieval systems with state-of-the-art performance usually adopt a retrieve-then-reranking architecture due to the high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Guangwei Xu , Pengjun Xie

We propose a new framework for the recognition of online handwritten graphics. Three main features of the framework are its ability to treat symbol and structural level information in an integrated way, its flexibility with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Frank Julca-Aguilar , Harold Mouchère , Christian Viard-Gaudin , Nina S. T. Hirata

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) enhance the potential of natural language processing. However, their actual impact on document information extraction remains unclear. In particular, it is unclear whether an MLLM-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiyuan Shen , Peiyue Yuan , Atin Ghosh , Yifan Mai , Daniel Dahlmeier

Good OCR results for historical printings rely on the availability of recognition models trained on diplomatic transcriptions as ground truth, which is both a scarce resource and time-consuming to generate. Instead of having to train a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-10-21 U. Springmann , F. Fink , K. U. Schulz

Handwritten text recognition has been widely studied in the last decades for its numerous applications. Nowadays, the state-of-the-art approach consists in a three-step process. The document is segmented into text lines, which are then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Denis Coquenet