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The context window of large language models has been extended to 128k tokens or more. However, language models still suffer from position bias and have difficulty in accessing and using the middle part of the context due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Meiru Zhang , Zaiqiao Meng , Nigel Collier

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to strong reasoning capabilities; however, evaluating such models in low-resource languages remains challenging due to the lack of standardized benchmarks. In particular, Urdu…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Muhammad Ali Shafique , Areej Mehboob , Layba Fiaz , Muhammad Usman Qadeer , Hamza Farooq

The saliency ranking task is recently proposed to study the visual behavior that humans would typically shift their attention over different objects of a scene based on their degrees of saliency. Existing approaches focus on learning either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Lin Du , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Displaying a document in Middle Eastern languages requires contextual analysis due to different presentational forms for each character of the alphabet. The words of the document will be formed by the joining of the correct positional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Kazem Taghva

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address the challenges of printed Urdu text recognition using high-resolution, multi-scale semantic feature extraction. Our proposed UTRNet architecture, a hybrid CNN-RNN model, demonstrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Abdur Rahman , Arjun Ghosh , Chetan Arora

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

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

Recent advancements in scene text spotting have focused on end-to-end methodologies that heavily rely on precise location annotations, which are often costly and labor-intensive to procure. In this study, we introduce an innovative approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jing Li , Bo Wang

In This paper we presented new approach for cursive Arabic text recognition system. The objective is to propose methodology analytical offline recognition of handwritten Arabic for rapid implementation. The first part in the writing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Ahlam Maqqor , Akram Halli , Khaled Satori

Unconstrained handwritten text recognition remains challenging for computer vision systems. Paragraph text recognition is traditionally achieved by two models: the first one for line segmentation and the second one for text line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Denis Coquenet , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

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

Human-object interaction detection is an important and relatively new class of visual relationship detection tasks, essential for deeper scene understanding. Most existing approaches decompose the problem into object localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Tiancai Wang , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Muhammad Haris Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao , Jorma Laaksonen

The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has raised important concerns about the factual reliability of their outputs, particularly in low-resource languages such as Urdu. Existing automated fact-checking systems are predominantly…

The paper approaches the task of handwritten text recognition (HTR) with attentional encoder-decoder networks trained on sequences of characters, rather than words. We experiment on lines of text from popular handwriting datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jason Poulos , Rafael Valle

In-context learning has become a popular paradigm in natural language processing. However, its performance can be significantly influenced by the order of in-context demonstration examples. In this paper, we found that causal language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yanzheng Xiang , Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, revolutionizing human-computer interactions. While major languages have benefited from these developments, lesser-resourced languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Muhammad Sharif , Zeeshan Abbas , Jiangyan Yi , Chenglin Liu

Handwriting Recognition has been a field of great interest in the Artificial Intelligence domain. Due to its broad use cases in real life, research has been conducted widely on it. Prominent work has been done in this field focusing mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Minhaz Kamal , Fairuz Shaiara , Chowdhury Mohammad Abdullah , Sabbir Ahmed , Tasnim Ahmed , Md. Hasanul Kabir

It has been established that Speech Affect Recognition for low resource languages is a difficult task. Here we present a Transfer learning based Speech Affect Recognition approach in which: we pre-train a model for high resource language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Sara Durrani , Muhammad Umair Arshad

Dialectal Arabic is the primary spoken language used by native Arabic speakers in daily communication. The rise of social media platforms has notably expanded its use as a written language. However, Arabic dialects do not have standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Bashar Alhafni , Sarah Al-Towaity , Ziyad Fawzy , Fatema Nassar , Fadhl Eryani , Houda Bouamor , Nizar Habash

We present an attention-based model for end-to-end handwriting recognition. Our system does not require any segmentation of the input paragraph. The model is inspired by the differentiable attention models presented recently for speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Théodore Bluche , Jérôme Louradour , Ronaldo Messina