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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…

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Text recognition remains a fundamental and extensively researched topic in computer vision, largely owing to its wide array of commercial applications. The challenging nature of the very problem however dictated a fragmentation of research…

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The advancement of machine learning algorithms in medical image analysis requires the expansion of training datasets. A popular and cost-effective approach is automated annotation extraction from free-text medical reports, primarily due to…

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The fundamental problem with ultrasound-guided diagnosis is that the acquired images are often 2-D cross-sections of a 3-D anatomy, potentially missing important anatomical details. This limitation leads to challenges in ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Ang Nan Gu , Michael Tsang , Hooman Vaseli , Teresa Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi

Machine learning (ML) on tabular data is ubiquitous, yet obtaining abundant high-quality tabular data for model training remains a significant obstacle. Numerous works have focused on tabular data augmentation (TDA) to enhance the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Handwriting is a natural and versatile method for human-computer interaction, especially on small mobile devices such as smart phones. However, as handwriting varies significantly from person to person, it is difficult to design handwriting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Sunsern Cheamanunkul , Yoav Freund

Multi-instrument music transcription aims to convert polyphonic music recordings into musical scores assigned to each instrument. This task is challenging for modeling as it requires simultaneously identifying multiple instruments and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Sungkyun Chang , Emmanouil Benetos , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Dixon

Training segmentation networks requires large annotated datasets, which in medical imaging can be hard to obtain. Despite this fact, data augmentation has in our opinion not been fully explored for brain tumor segmentation. In this project…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Marco Domenico Cirillo , David Abramian , Anders Eklund

As an effective strategy, data augmentation (DA) alleviates data scarcity scenarios where deep learning techniques may fail. It is widely applied in computer vision then introduced to natural language processing and achieves improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bohan Li , Yutai Hou , Wanxiang Che

Recent surveys on data augmentation for natural language processing have reported different techniques and advancements in the field. Several frameworks, tools, and repositories promote the implementation of text data augmentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Marcellus Amadeus , William Alberto Cruz Castañeda

Knowledge distillation (KD) requires sufficient data to transfer knowledge from large-scale teacher models to small-scale student models. Therefore, data augmentation has been widely used to mitigate the shortage of data under specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ziqi Wang , Chi Han , Wenxuan Bao , Heng Ji

Data augmentation is a widely used and effective technique to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability when working with medical images, it is frequently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Despite significant advances in deep learning, current Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems struggle with the inherent complexity of historical documents, including diverse writing styles, degraded text quality, and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Mohammed Hamdan , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a task of central importance in the field of document image understanding. State-of-the-art methods for HTR require the use of extensive annotated sets for training, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petros Georgoulas Wraight , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos , George Retsinas

This study conducts a thorough evaluation of text augmentation techniques across a variety of datasets and natural language processing (NLP) tasks to address the lack of reliable, generalized evidence for these methods. It examines the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Himmet Toprak Kesgin , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

Despite recent advancements in deep learning, its application in real-world medical settings, such as phonocardiogram (PCG) classification, remains limited. A significant barrier is the lack of high-quality annotated datasets, which hampers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Aristotelis Ballas , Vasileios Papapanagiotou , Christos Diou

In this work we investigate the impact of applying textual data augmentation tasks to low resource machine translation. There has been recent interest in investigating approaches for training systems for languages with limited resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Catherine Gitau , VUkosi Marivate

The handwritten text recognition problem is widely studied by the researchers of computer vision community due to its scope of improvement and applicability to daily lives, It is a sub-domain of pattern recognition. Due to advancement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Lalita Kumari , Sukhdeep Singh , VVS Rathore , Anuj Sharma

With the capabilities of understanding and executing natural language instructions, Large language models (LLMs) can potentially act as a powerful tool for textual data augmentation. However, the quality of augmented data depends heavily on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yichuan Li , Kaize Ding , Jianling Wang , Kyumin Lee

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