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Optical character recognition (OCR) is a vital process that involves the extraction of handwritten or printed text from scanned or printed images, converting it into a format that can be understood and processed by machines. This enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem , Mohamed Mahmoud , Hyun-Soo Kang

Accurate document layout analysis is a key requirement for high-quality PDF document conversion. With the recent availability of public, large ground-truth datasets such as PubLayNet and DocBank, deep-learning models have proven to be very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Birgit Pfitzmann , Christoph Auer , Michele Dolfi , Ahmed S Nassar , Peter W J Staar

Diacritization of Arabic text is both an interesting and a challenging problem at the same time with various applications ranging from speech synthesis to helping students learning the Arabic language. Like many other tasks or problems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ali Fadel , Ibraheem Tuffaha , Bara' Al-Jawarneh , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub

State-of-the-art methods for handwriting recognition are based on Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNN), which now provides very impressive character recognition performance. The character recognition is generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Bruno Stuner , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

This study uses a character level neural machine translation approach trained on a long short-term memory-based bi-directional recurrent neural network architecture for diacritization of Medieval Arabic. The results improve from the online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Khalid Alnajjar , Mika Hämäläinen , Niko Partanen , Jack Rueter

This research is the second phase in a series of investigations on developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Arabic historical documents and examining how different modeling procedures interact with the problem. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Aly Mostafa , Omar Mohamed , Ali Ashraf , Ahmed Elbehery , Salma Jamal , Anas Salah , Amr S. Ghoneim

With the rapid increase of transnational communication and cooperation, people frequently encounter multilingual scenarios in various situations. In this paper, we are concerned with a relatively new problem: script identification at word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Baoguang Shi , Cong Yao , Chengquan Zhang , Xiaowei Guo , Feiyue Huang , Xiang Bai

Text summarization has been intensively studied in many languages, and some languages have reached advanced stages. Yet, Arabic Text Summarization (ATS) is still in its developing stages. Existing ATS datasets are either small or lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Abdulaziz Alhamadani , Xuchao Zhang , Jianfeng He , Chang-Tien Lu

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a long and rich history, but existing corpora and language technology focus mostly on modern Arabic and its varieties. Therefore, studying the history of the language has so far been mostly limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yonatan Belinkov , Alexander Magidow , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Avi Shmidman , Maxim Romanov

Image classification is an ongoing research challenge. Most of the available research focuses on image classification for the English language, however there is very little research on image classification for the Arabic language. Expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Abdulkareem Alsudais

In a multilingual country like India where 12 different official scripts are in use, automatic identification of handwritten script facilitates many important applications such as automatic transcription of multilingual documents, searching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Pawan Kumar Singh , Iman Chatterjee , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

Writer identification due to its widespread application in various fields has gained popularity over the years. In scenarios where optimum handwriting samples are available, whether they be in the form of a single line, a sentence, or an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Vineet Kumar , Suresh Sundaram

Epigraphy increasingly turns to modern artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning (ML) for extracting insights from ancient inscriptions. However, scarce labeled data for training ML algorithms severely limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Andrei C. Aioanei , Regine Hunziker-Rodewald , Konstantin Klein , Dominik L. Michels

Opinion mining aims at extracting useful subjective information from reliable amounts of text. Opinion mining holder recognition is a task that has not been considered yet in Arabic Language. This task essentially requires deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Mohamed Elarnaoty , Samir AbdelRahman , Aly Fahmy

Detecting design pattern instances in unfamiliar codebases remains a challenging yet essential task for improving software quality and maintainability. Traditional static analysis tools often struggle with the complexity, variability, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Christian Schindler , Andreas Rausch

The handwritten text recognition problem is widely studied by the researchers of computer vision community due to its scope of improvement and applicability to daily lives, It is a sub-domain of pattern recognition. Due to advancement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Lalita Kumari , Sukhdeep Singh , VVS Rathore , Anuj Sharma

Detecting subjectivity in news sentences is crucial for identifying media bias, enhancing credibility, and combating misinformation by flagging opinion-based content. It provides insights into public sentiment, empowers readers to make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Reem Suwaileh , Maram Hasanain , Fatema Hubail , Wajdi Zaghouani , Firoj Alam

In this paper, we propose an automatic analysis system for the Arabic handwriting postal addresses recognition, by using the beta elliptical model. Our system is divided into different steps: analysis, pre-processing and classification. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Moncef Charfi , Monji Kherallah , Abdelkarim El Baati , Adel M. Alimi

This paper presents a method for text line segmentation of challenging historical manuscript images. These manuscript images contain narrow interline spaces with touching components, interpenetrating vowel signs and inconsistent font types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Berat Barakat , Ahmad Droby , Majeed Kassis , Jihad El-Sana

Automatic Arabic diacritization is useful in many applications, ranging from reading support for language learners to accurate pronunciation predictor for downstream tasks like speech synthesis. While most of the previous works focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Parnia Bahar , Mattia Di Gangi , Nick Rossenbach , Mohammad Zeineldeen