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Handwritten Word Recognition and Spotting is a challenging field dealing with handwritten text possessing irregular and complex shapes. The design of deep neural network models makes it necessary to extend training datasets in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Abhirup Das , Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Perla Sai Raj Kishore , Partha Pratim Roy

This paper describes the method to recognize offline handwritten characters. A robust algorithm for handwriting segmentation is described here with the help of which individual characters can be segmented from a selected word from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Jayati Ghosh Dastidar , Surabhi Sarkar , Rick Punyadyuti Sinha , Kasturi Basu

Unconstrained handwritten text recognition is a challenging computer vision task. It is traditionally handled by a two-step approach, combining line segmentation followed by text line recognition. For the first time, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Denis Coquenet , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

Sign language segmentation is a crucial task in sign language processing systems. It enables downstream tasks such as sign recognition, transcription, and machine translation. In this work, we consider two kinds of segmentation:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amit Moryossef , Zifan Jiang , Mathias Müller , Sarah Ebling , Yoav Goldberg

Text line segmentation is one of the key steps in historical document understanding. It is challenging due to the variety of fonts, contents, writing styles and the quality of documents that have degraded through the years. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mélodie Boillet , Christopher Kermorvant , Thierry Paquet

On-line handwritten character segmentation is often associated with handwriting recognition and even though recognition models include mechanisms to locate relevant positions during the recognition process, it is typically insufficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Michael Jungo , Beat Wolf , Andrii Maksai , Claudiu Musat , Andreas Fischer

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

Line segmentation from handwritten text images is one of the challenging task due to diversity and unknown variations as undefined spaces, styles, orientations, stroke heights, overlapping, and alignments. Though abundant researches, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Nidhi Gupta , Wenju Liu

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has created an urgent need to distinguish between human-written and LLM-generated text to ensure authenticity and societal trust. Existing detectors typically provide a binary classification for an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mengchu Li , Jin Zhu , Jinglai Li , Chengchun Shi

Efficient categorization of historical documents is crucial for fields such as genealogy, legal research, and historical scholarship, where manual classification is impractical for large collections due to its labor-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Taylor Archibald , Tony Martinez

There is an immense quantity of historical and cultural documentation that exists only as handwritten manuscripts. At the same time, performing OCR across scripts and different handwriting styles has proven to be an enormously difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Lucian Li

Text segmentation, the task of dividing a document into sections, is often a prerequisite for performing additional natural language processing tasks. Existing text segmentation methods have typically been developed and tested using clean,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Carol Anderson , Phil Crone

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Claude 3.5, underscores the need to distinguish LLM-generated text from human-written content to mitigate the spread of misinformation and misuse in education. One…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-11 Xingchi Li , Xiaochi Liu , Guanxun Li

There is a large collection of Handwritten English paper documents of Historical and Scientific importance. But paper documents are not recognized directly by computer. Hence the closest way of indexing these documents is by storing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-24 Sayantan Sarkar

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

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their heritage. The main idea in order to characterize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Nizar Zaghden , Remy Mullot , Mohamed Adel Alimi

Encoded (or ciphered) manuscripts are a special type of historical documents that contain encrypted text. The automatic recognition of this kind of documents is challenging because: 1) the cipher alphabet changes from one document to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Crina Tudor

Page segmentation is a web page analysis process that divides a page into cohesive segments, such as sidebars, headers, and footers. Current page segmentation approaches use either the DOM, textual content, or rendering style information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohammad Bajammal , Ali Mesbah

In this paper we introduce a script identification method based on hand-crafted texture features and an artificial neural network. The proposed pipeline achieves near state-of-the-art performance for script identification of video-text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Anguelos Nicolaou , Andrew Bagdanov , Lluis Gomez-Bigorda , Dimosthenis Karatzas