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Paper-intensive industries like insurance, law, and government have long leveraged optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically transcribe hordes of scanned documents into text strings for downstream processing. Even in 2019, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 W. Ronny Huang , Yike Qi , Qianqian Li , Jonathan Degange

In recent years, tremendous efforts have been made on document image rectification, but existing advanced algorithms are limited to processing restricted document images, i.e., the input images must incorporate a complete document. Once the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hao Feng , Shaokai Liu , Jiajun Deng , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Despite the recent advances in optical character recognition (OCR), mathematical expressions still face a great challenge to recognize due to their two-dimensional graphical layout. In this paper, we propose a convolutional sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Zuoyu Yan , Xiaode Zhang , Liangcai Gao , Ke Yuan , Zhi Tang

Scene text recognition has made significant progress in recent years and has become an important part of the work-flow. The widespread use of mobile devices opens up wide possibilities for using OCR technologies in everyday life. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Nathan Zachary , Gerald Carl , Russell Elijah , Hessi Roma , Robert Leer , James Amelia

The laws of model size, data volume, computation and model performance have been extensively studied in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, the scaling laws in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) have not yet been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Miao Rang , Zhenni Bi , Chuanjian Liu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han

Document comparison typically relies on optical character recognition (OCR) as its core technology. However, OCR requires the selection of appropriate language models for each document and the performance of multilingual or hybrid models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Doyoung Park , Naresh Reddy Yarram , Sunjin Kim , Minkyu Kim , Seongho Cho , Taehee Lee

The project comes with the technique of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which includes various research sides of computer science. The project is to take a picture of a character and process it up to recognize the image of that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Arkaprabha Basu , M. Sathya

In recent years, notable advancements have been made in the domain of visual document understanding, with the prevailing architecture comprising a cascade of vision and language models. The text component can either be extracted explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ofir Abramovich , Niv Nayman , Sharon Fogel , Inbal Lavi , Ron Litman , Shahar Tsiper , Royee Tichauer , Srikar Appalaraju , Shai Mazor , R. Manmatha

Scene text synthesis involves rendering specified texts onto arbitrary images. Current methods typically formulate this task in an end-to-end manner but lack effective character-level guidance during training. Besides, their text encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yibin Wang , Weizhong Zhang , Honghui Xu , Cheng Jin

We report an interpretation method for deep learning models that allows us to handle high-dimensional spectral data in materials science. The proposed method uses feature extraction and clustering analysis to categorize materials into…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Akira Takahashi , Yu Kumagai , Arata Takamatsu , Fumiyasu Oba

Deep learning has been achieving decent performance in computer vision requiring a large volume of images, however, collecting images is expensive and difficult in many scenarios. To alleviate this issue, many image augmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mingle Xu , Sook Yoon , Alvaro Fuentes , Dong Sun Park

The ever-growing deep learning technologies are making revolutionary changes for modern life. However, conventional computing architectures are designed to process sequential and digital programs, being extremely burdened with performing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yuyao Huang , Tingzhao Fu , Honghao Huang , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

Despite significant advancements in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs), a gap remains, particularly regarding their interpretability and how they locate and interpret textual information within images. In this paper, we explore various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ingeol Baek , Hwan Chang , Sunghyun Ryu , Hwanhee Lee

Every Scene Text Recognition (STR) task consists of text localization \& text recognition as the prominent sub-tasks. However, in real-world applications with fixed camera positions such as equipment monitor reading, image-based data entry,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 P. N. Deelaka , D. R. Jayakodi , D. Y. Silva

The performance of optical character recognition (OCR) heavily relies on document image quality, which is crucial for automatic document processing and document intelligence. However, most existing document enhancement methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiaxin Zhang , Joy Rimchala , Lalla Mouatadid , Kamalika Das , Sricharan Kumar

Deep convolutional networks have attracted great attention in image restoration and enhancement. Generally, restoration quality has been improved by building more and more convolutional block. However, these methods mostly learn a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Yukai Shi , Jinghui Qin

We propose a Deep Texture Encoding Network (Deep-TEN) with a novel Encoding Layer integrated on top of convolutional layers, which ports the entire dictionary learning and encoding pipeline into a single model. Current methods build from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Hang Zhang , Jia Xue , Kristin Dana

Text detection in natural images is a challenging but necessary task for many applications. Existing approaches utilize large deep convolutional neural networks making it difficult to use them in real-world tasks. We propose a small yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Alexander Filonenko , Konstantin Gudkov , Aleksei Lebedev , Nikita Orlov , Ivan Zagaynov

Text recognition in natural scene is a challenging problem due to the many factors affecting text appearance. In this paper, we presents a method that directly transcribes scene text images to text without needing of sophisticated character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Guo Qiang , Tu Dan , Li Guohui , Lei Jun

Text recognition is a major computer vision task with a big set of associated challenges. One of those traditional challenges is the coupled nature of text recognition and segmentation. This problem has been progressively solved over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Mohamed Yousef , Tom E. Bishop