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Handwritten character recognition is a challenging research in the field of document image analysis over many decades due to numerous reasons such as large writing styles variation, inherent noise in data, expansive applications it offers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Noushath Shaffi , Faizal Hajamohideen

Handwritten character recognition is getting popular among researchers because of its possible applications in facilitating technological search engines, social media, recommender systems, etc. The Devanagari script is one of the oldest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Diksha Mehta , Prateek Mehta

Historical documents present many challenges for offline handwriting recognition systems, among them, the segmentation and labeling steps. Carefully annotated textlines are needed to train an HTR system. In some scenarios, transcripts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Edgard Chammas , Chafic Mokbel , Laurence Likforman-Sulem

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script languages benefits from cross-language joint training under low-resource conditions, particularly when using CRNN-based models that combine convolutional encoders with sequence modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sana Al-azzawi , Chang Liu , Nudrat Habib , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

Online and offline handwritten Chinese text recognition (HTCR) has been studied for decades. Early methods adopted oversegmentation-based strategies but suffered from low speed, insufficient accuracy, and high cost of character segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Dezhi Peng , Lianwen Jin , Weihong Ma , Canyu Xie , Hesuo Zhang , Shenggao Zhu , Jing Li

Character recognition is the fundamental part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Word recognition, sentence transcription, document digitization, and language processing are some of the higher-order activities that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mirza Raquib , Asif Pervez Polok , Kedar Nath Biswas , Farida Siddiqi Prity , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Scene text recognition in low-resource Indian languages is challenging because of complexities like multiple scripts, fonts, text size, and orientations. In this work, we investigate the power of transfer learning for all the layers of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Sanjana Gunna , Rohit Saluja , C. V. Jawahar

Handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) has been an active research topic for decades. However, most previous studies solely focus on the recognition of cropped text line images, ignoring the error caused by text line detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Dezhi Peng , Lianwen Jin , Yuliang Liu , Canjie Luo , Songxuan Lai

Inspired by the theory of Leitners learning box from the field of psychology, we propose DropSample, a new method for training deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), and apply it to large-scale online handwritten Chinese character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Weixin Yang , Lianwen Jin , Dacheng Tao , Zecheng Xie , Ziyong Feng

The information provided by historical documents has always been indispensable in the transmission of human civilization, but it has also made these books susceptible to damage due to various factors. Thanks to recent technology, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Chia-Wei Tang , Chao-Lin Liu , Po-Sen Chiu

New findings in natural language processing (NLP) demonstrate that the strong memorization capability contributes a lot to the success of Large Language Models (LLM). This inspires us to explicitly bring an independent memory mechanism into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Pengtao Zhang , Junlin Zhang

Character identification plays a vital role in the contemporary world of Image processing. It can solve many composite problems and makes humans work easier. An instance is Handwritten Character detection. Handwritten recognition is not a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-27 V. Karthikeyan

This work proposes an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model for handwritten word recognition and explores transfer learning for data-efficient training of HTR systems. To overcome training data scarcity, this work leverages models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dmitrijs Kass , Ekta Vats

In this paper we deal with the offline handwriting text recognition (HTR) problem with reduced training datasets. Recent HTR solutions based on artificial neural networks exhibit remarkable solutions in referenced databases. These deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 José Carlos Aradillas , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Pablo M. Olmos

In this paper, we propose a novel approach of word-level Indic script identification using only character-level data in training stage. The advantages of using character level data for training have been outlined in section I. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Subham Mukherjee , Aneeshan Sain , Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Partha Pratim Roy , Umapada Pal

Deep learning based methods have been dominating the text recognition tasks in different and multilingual scenarios. The offline handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) is one of the most challenging tasks because it involves thousands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Brian Liu , Xianchao Xu , Yu Zhang

Convolutional neural networks(CNNs) has become one of the primary algorithms for various computer vision tasks. Handwritten character recognition is a typical example of such task that has also attracted attention. CNN architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Bodhisatwa Mandal , Suvam Dubey , Swarnendu Ghosh , Ritesh Sarkhel , Nibaran Das

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

There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Ahmed Sahlol , Cheng Suen

Recent deep learning based approaches have achieved great success on handwriting recognition. Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world. Previous research has mainly focused on recognizing handwritten…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Xu-Yao Zhang , Fei Yin , Yan-Ming Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu , Yoshua Bengio