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Automatic character generation is an appealing solution for new typeface design, especially for Chinese typefaces including over 3700 most commonly-used characters. This task has two main pain points: (i) handwritten characters are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chuan Wen , Jie Chang , Ya Zhang , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang , Mei Han , Qi Tian

Many studies on (Offline) Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems have focused on building state-of-the-art models for line recognition on small corpora. However, adding HTR capability to a large scale multilingual OCR system poses new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 R. Reeve Ingle , Yasuhisa Fujii , Thomas Deselaers , Jonathan Baccash , Ashok C. Popat

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

Despite the significant success in the field of text recognition, complex and unsolved problems still exist in this field. In recent years, the recognition accuracy of the English language has greatly increased, while the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sergey A. Ilyuhin , Alexander V. Sheshkus , Vladimir L. Arlazarov

Handwritten character recognition (HCR) remains a challenging pattern recognition problem despite decades of research, and lacks research on script independent recognition techniques. {\color{black}This is mainly because of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Sukhdeep Singh , Anuj Sharma

Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth. Optical character recognition is a science that enables to translate various types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jamshed Memon , Maira Sami , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has become an essential field within pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning historical document preservation to modern data entry and accessibility solutions. The complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Antonio Rios-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing and there is a large demand for OCR on hand written documents. Even though, sufficient studies have performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 John Jomy , K. V. Pramod , Balakrishnan Kannan

This paper presents a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for camera captured image/graphics embedded textual documents for handheld devices. At first, text regions are extracted and skew corrected. Then, these regions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-16 Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Nabamita Majumder , Subhadip Basu , Mita Nasipuri

Multi-stroke characters in scripts such as Chinese and Japanese can be highly complex, posing significant challenges for both native speakers and, especially, non-native learners. If these characters can be simplified without degrading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ryo Ishiyama , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Seiichi Uchida

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

Zero-shot Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (HCCR) aims to recognize unseen characters by leveraging radical-based semantic compositions. However, existing approaches often treat characters as flat radical sequences, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qiuming Luo , Tao Zeng , Feng Li , Heming Liu , Rui Mao , Chang Kong

Like other problems in computer vision, offline handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR) has achieved impressive results using convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods. However, larger and deeper networks are needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Xuefeng Xiao , Lianwen Jin , Yafeng Yang , Weixin Yang , Jun Sun , Tianhai Chang

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

The subtleties of human perception, as measured by vision scientists through the use of psychophysics, are important clues to the internal workings of visual recognition. For instance, measured reaction time can indicate whether a visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Samuel Grieggs , Bingyu Shen , Greta Rauch , Pei Li , Jiaqi Ma , David Chiang , Brian Price , Walter J. Scheirer

Oracle character recognition-an analysis of ancient Chinese inscriptions found on oracle bones-has become a pivotal field intersecting archaeology, paleography, and historical cultural studies. Traditional methods of oracle character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jing Li , Xueke Chi , Qiufeng Wang , Dahan Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Yongge Liu , Cheng-lin Liu

To automatically correct handwritten assignments, the traditional approach is to use an OCR model to recognize characters and compare them to answers. The OCR model easily gets confused on recognizing handwritten Chinese characters, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yusen Zhang , Zhongli Li , Qingyu Zhou , Ziyi Liu , Chao Li , Mina Ma , Yunbo Cao , Hongzhi Liu

Offline Chinese handwriting text recognition is a long-standing research topic in the field of pattern recognition. In previous studies, text detection and recognition are separated, which leads to the fact that text recognition is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhihao Wang , Yanwei Yu , Yibo Wang , Haixu Long , Fazheng Wang

The handwriting of Chinese characters is a fundamental aspect of learning the Chinese language. Previous automated assessment methods often framed scoring as a regression problem. However, this score-only feedback lacks actionable guidance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chen Zheng , Yuxuan Lai , Haoyang Lu , Wentao Ma , Jitao Yang , Jian Wang

The flourishing blossom of deep learning has witnessed the rapid development of Chinese character recognition. However, it remains a great challenge that the characters for testing may have different distributions from those of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Haiyang Yu , Jingye Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue