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Arabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) is challenging, especially for historical texts, due to diverse writing styles and the intrinsic features of Arabic script. Additionally, Arabic handwriting datasets are smaller compared to English…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Adrian Chan , Anupam Mijar , Mehreen Saeed , Chau-Wai Wong , Akram Khater

The evaluation of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models during their development is straightforward: because HTR is a supervised problem, the usual data split into training, validation, and test data sets allows the evaluation of models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Phillip Benjamin Ströbel , Simon Clematide , Martin Volk , Raphael Schwitter , Tobias Hodel , David Schoch

Exploiting label hierarchies has become a promising approach to tackling the zero-shot multi-label text classification (ZS-MTC) problem. Conventional methods aim to learn a matching model between text and labels, using a graph encoder to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hui Liu , Danqing Zhang , Bing Yin , Xiaodan Zhu

Handwritten text recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script languages still lags behind Latin-script HTR, despite recent advances in model architectures, datasets, and benchmarks. We show that data quality is a significant limiting factor in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sana Al-azzawi , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

Scene text recognition (STR) task has a common practice: All state-of-the-art STR models are trained on large synthetic data. In contrast to this practice, training STR models only on fewer real labels (STR with fewer labels) is important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jeonghun Baek , Yusuke Matsui , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Recent advancements in handwritten text recognition (HTR) have enabled the effective conversion of handwritten text to digital formats. However, achieving robust recognition across diverse writing styles remains challenging. Traditional HTR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wenhao Gu , Li Gu , Ching Yee Suen , Yang Wang

While state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models perform well on standard benchmarks, they frequently struggle with writers exhibiting highly specific styles that are underrepresented in the training data. To handle unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom Simon , Stephane Nicolas , Pierrick Tranouez , Clement Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a relevant problem in computer vision, and implies unique challenges owing to its inherent variability and the rich contextualization required for its interpretation. Despite the success of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Carlos Penarrubia , Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Jose J. Valero-Mas , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is crucial for document digitization, but handwritten data can contain user-identifiable features, like unique writing styles, posing privacy risks. Regulations such as the ``right to be forgotten''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Lei Kang , Xuanshuo Fu , Lluis Gomez , Alicia Fornés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open problem at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The main challenges, when dealing with historical manuscripts, are due to the preservation of the paper support,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Silvia Cascianelli , Vittorio Pippi , Martin Maarand , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

The primary challenge for handwriting recognition systems lies in managing long-range contextual dependencies, an issue that traditional models often struggle with. To mitigate it, attention mechanisms have recently been employed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Sara Ferro , Alessandro Torcinovich , Arianna Traviglia , Marcello Pelillo

Handwriting recognition is a challenging and critical problem in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning a wide range of domains. In this paper, we focus on the specific issue of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Saleh Momeni , Bagher BabaAli

This paper investigates Reinforcement Learning (RL) on data without explicit labels for reasoning tasks in Large Language Models (LLMs). The core challenge of the problem is reward estimation during inference while not having access to…

Handwritten text recognition for historical documents remains challenging due to handwriting variability, degraded sources, and limited layout-aware annotations. In this work, we address annotation errors - particularly hyphenation issues -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Marco Peer , Anna Scius-Bertrand , Andreas Fischer

A major impediment to the application of deep learning to real-world problems is the scarcity of labeled data. Small training sets are in fact of no use to deep networks as, due to the large number of trainable parameters, they will very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ismail Elezi , Alessandro Torcinovich , Sebastiano Vascon , Marcello Pelillo

This article presents and validates an ideal, four-stage workflow for the high-accuracy transcription and analysis of challenging medieval legal documents. The process begins with a specialized Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Joshua D. Isom

We introduce a general detection-based approach to text line recognition, be it printed (OCR) or handwritten (HTR), with Latin, Chinese, or ciphered characters. Detection-based approaches have until now been largely discarded for HTR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Raphael Baena , Syrine Kalleli , Mathieu Aubry

Offline Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) is a major area in the field of mathematical expression recognition. Offline HMER is often viewed as a much harder problem as compared to online HMER due to a lack of temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ujjwal Thakur , Anuj Sharma

Handwriting recognition technology allows recognizing a written text from a given data. The recognition task can target letters, symbols, or words, and the input data can be a digital image or recorded by various sensors. A wide range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hilda Azimi , Steven Chang , Jonathan Gold , Koray Karabina

Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) aims to categorize text data based on a structured label hierarchy, resulting in predicted labels forming a sub-hierarchy tree. The semantics of the text should align with the semantics of the labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ashish Kumar , Durga Toshniwal