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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

We consider the problem of omni-supervised object detection, which can use unlabeled, fully labeled and weakly labeled annotations, such as image tags, counts, points, etc., for object detection. This is enabled by a unified architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Pei Wang , Zhaowei Cai , Hao Yang , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Nuno Vasconcelos , Bernt Schiele , Stefano Soatto

Traditional machine learning models for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) rely on supervised training, requiring extensive manual annotations, and often produce errors due to the separation between layout and text processing. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Giorgia Crosilla , Lukas Klic , Giovanni Colavizza

Despite several successes in document understanding, the practical task for long document understanding is largely under-explored due to several challenges in computation and how to efficiently absorb long multimodal input. Most current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hai Pham , Guoxin Wang , Yijuan Lu , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

Multi-head attention layers, as used in the Transformer neural sequence model, are a powerful alternative to RNNs for moving information across and between sequences. While training these layers is generally fast and simple, due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Noam Shazeer

Graph Transformers have garnered significant attention for learning graph-structured data, thanks to their superb ability to capture long-range dependencies among nodes. However, the quadratic space and time complexity hinders the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Huiyuan Chen , Zhe Xu , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Vivian Lai , Yan Zheng , Minghua Xu , Hanghang Tong

Transformers have reshaped machine learning by utilizing attention mechanisms to capture complex patterns in large datasets, leading to significant improvements in performance. This success has contributed to the belief that "bigger means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hemanth Saratchandran , Damien Teney , Simon Lucey

Pretrained transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results in many tasks and benchmarks recently. Many state-of-the-art Language Models (LMs), however, do not scale well above the threshold of 512 input tokens. In specialized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Joel Niklaus , Daniele Giofré

Handwritten Text Recognition remains challenging due to the limited data, high writing style variance, and scripts with complex diacritics. Existing approaches, though partially address these issues, often struggle to generalize without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Pham Thach Thanh Truc , Dang Hoai Nam , Huynh Tong Dang Khoa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy

Text recognition is a long-standing research problem for document digitalization. Existing approaches are usually built based on CNN for image understanding and RNN for char-level text generation. In addition, another language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Minghao Li , Tengchao Lv , Jingye Chen , Lei Cui , Yijuan Lu , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhongjie Yu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Jiebo Luo

This paper proposes a new transformer-based framework to learn class-specific object localization maps as pseudo labels for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Inspired by the fact that the attended regions of the one-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Dan Xu

We propose a light-weight and highly efficient Joint Detection and Tracking pipeline for the task of Multi-Object Tracking using a fully-transformer architecture. It is a modified version of TransTrack, which overcomes the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Siddharth Sagar Nijhawan , Leo Hoshikawa , Atsushi Irie , Masakazu Yoshimura , Junji Otsuka , Takeshi Ohashi

Handwritten text recognition has been widely studied in the last decades for its numerous applications. Nowadays, the state-of-the-art approach consists in a three-step process. The document is segmented into text lines, which are then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Denis Coquenet

Learning with a limited number of labeled data is a central problem in real-world applications of machine learning, as it is often expensive to obtain annotations. To deal with the scarcity of labeled data, transfer learning is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jaehyun Nam , Woomin Song , Seong Hyeon Park , Jihoon Tack , Sukmin Yun , Jaehyung Kim , Kyu Hwan Oh , Jinwoo Shin

Transfer learning on tabular data is challenging due to disparate feature spaces across domains, in contrast to the homogeneous structures of image and text. Large language models (LLMs) offer a knowledge base to improve the limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ibna Kowsar , Kazi F. Akhter , Manar D. Samad

Handwriting text recognition (HTR) remains a challenging task. Existing approaches require fine-tuning on labeled data, which is impractical to obtain for real-world problems, or rely on zero-shot tools such as OCR engines and multi-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Benjamin Gutteridge , Matthew Thomas Jackson , Toni Kukurin , Xiaowen Dong

Recently, several types of end-to-end speech recognition methods named transformer-transducer were introduced. According to those kinds of methods, transcription networks are generally modeled by transformer-based neural networks, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jae-Jin Jeon , Eesung Kim

Representation learning on networks aims to derive a meaningful vector representation for each node, thereby facilitating downstream tasks such as link prediction, node classification, and node clustering. In heterogeneous text-rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Bowen Jin , Yu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Jiawei Han

To capture the semantic graph structure from raw text, most existing summarization approaches are built on GNNs with a pre-trained model. However, these methods suffer from cumbersome procedures and inefficient computations for long-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ye Liu , Jian-Guo Zhang , Yao Wan , Congying Xia , Lifang He , Philip S. Yu