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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

Handwritten text recognition is challenging because of the virtually infinite ways a human can write the same message. Our fully convolutional handwriting model takes in a handwriting sample of unknown length and outputs an arbitrary stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Felipe Petroski Such , Dheeraj Peri , Frank Brockler , Paul Hutkowski , Raymond Ptucha

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

The text-independent approach to writer identification does not require the writer to write some predetermined text. Previous research on text-independent writer identification has been based on identifying writer-specific features designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hung Tuan Nguyen , Cuong Tuan Nguyen , Takeya Ino , Bipin Indurkhya , Masaki Nakagawa

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising results for the task of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) but they still fall behind Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)/Transformer based models in terms of performance. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kartik Chaudhary , Raghav Bali

Just like its remarkable achievements in many computer vision tasks, the convolutional neural networks (CNN) provide an end-to-end solution in handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR) with great success. However, the process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Zhiyuan Li , Min Jin , Qi Wu , Huaxiang Lu

Handwriting-based gender classification is a well-researched problem that has been approached mainly by traditional machine learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based approach for this task. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Evyatar Illouz , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu

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 character recognition (HCR) is a challenging problem for machine learning researchers. Unlike printed text data, handwritten character datasets have more variation due to human-introduced bias. With numerous unique character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Boris Kriuk , Fedor Kriuk

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved great success in various computer vision and pattern recognition applications, including those for handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR). However, most current DCNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Weixin Yang , Lianwen Jin , Zecheng Xie , Ziyong Feng

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is still a challenging problem because it must deal with two important difficulties: the variability among writing styles, and the scarcity of labelled data. To alleviate such problems, synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lei Kang , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Pau Riba , Mauricio Villegas

Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (HMEs) is a challenging problem because of the ambiguity and complexity of two-dimensional handwriting. Moreover, the lack of large training data is a serious issue, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Anh Duc Le , Bipin Indurkhya , Masaki Nakagawa

Recent advancements in Deep Learning-based Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) have led to models with remarkable performance on both modern and historical manuscripts in large benchmark datasets. Nonetheless, those models struggle to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

Saliency methods are used extensively to highlight the importance of input features in model predictions. These methods are mostly used in vision and language tasks, and their applications to time series data is relatively unexplored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Mohamed Gunady , Héctor Corrada Bravo , Soheil Feizi

In this paper, an efficient Offline Hand Written Character Recognition algorithm is proposed based on Associative Memory Net (AMN). The AMN used in this work is basically auto associative. The implementation is carried out completely in 'C'…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Tirtharaj Dash

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

In this work, we develop new self-learning techniques with an attention-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). For untranscribed speech data, the hypothesis from an ASR system must be used as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Kenichi Kumatani , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Yashesh Gaur , Robert Gmyr , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Jinyu Li , Michael Zeng

In this paper, we introduce a novel technique to recover the pen trajectory of offline characters which is a crucial step for handwritten character recognition. Generally, online acquisition approach has more advantage than its offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Abir Bhowmick , Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Prithaj Banerjee , Partha Pratim Roy , Umapada Pal

The use of features extracted using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) combined with a writer-dependent (WD) SVM classifier resulted in significant improvement in performance of handwritten signature verification (HSV) when compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Victor L. F. Souza , Adriano L. I. Oliveira , Robert Sabourin

Handwritten text recognition has been developed rapidly in the recent years, following the rise of deep learning and its applications. Though deep learning methods provide notable boost in performance concerning text recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Basilis Gatos , Christophoros Nikou