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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting digitized text from images of scanned documents. While OCR systems have already matured in many languages, they still have shortcomings in cursive languages with overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hussein Osman , Karim Zaghw , Mostafa Hazem , Seifeldin Elsehely

In this work, we study the problem of word-level confidence calibration for scene-text recognition (STR). Although the topic of confidence calibration has been an active research area for the last several decades, the case of structured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ron Slossberg , Oron Anschel , Amir Markovitz , Ron Litman , Aviad Aberdam , Shahar Tsiper , Shai Mazor , Jon Wu , R. Manmatha

Pretrained language models such as BERT, GPT have shown great effectiveness in language understanding. The auxiliary predictive tasks in existing pretraining approaches are mostly defined on tokens, thus may not be able to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hongchao Fang , Sicheng Wang , Meng Zhou , Jiayuan Ding , Pengtao Xie

Kurdish libraries have many historical publications that were printed back in the early days when printing devices were brought to Kurdistan. Having a good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to help process these publications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Blnd Yaseen , Hossein Hassani

As the number of open and shared scientific datasets on the Internet increases under the open science movement, efficiently retrieving these datasets is a crucial task in information retrieval (IR) research. In recent years, the development…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xintao Chu , Jianping Liu , Jian Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Yingfei Wang , Meng Wang , Xunxun Gu

We present a new method for computing ASR word confidences that effectively mitigates the effect of ASR errors for diverse downstream applications, improves the word error rate of the 1-best result, and allows better comparison of scores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Woojay Jeon , Maxwell Jordan , Mahesh Krishnamoorthy

Security vulnerabilities present in a code that has been written in diverse programming languages are among the most critical yet complicated aspects of source code to detect. Static analysis tools based on rule-based patterns usually do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hael Abdulhakim Ali Humran , Ferdi Sonmez

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems often introduce errors when transcribing historical documents, leaving room for post-correction to improve text quality. This study evaluates the use of open-weight LLMs for OCR error correction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jenna Kanerva , Cassandra Ledins , Siiri Käpyaho , Filip Ginter

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a medical imaging modality that allows us to probe deeper substructures of skin. The state-of-the-art wound care prediction and monitoring methods are based on visual evaluation and focus on surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Prashant Kumar , Swatantra Dhara , Ayan Gope , Jyotirmoy Chatterjee , Subhamoy Mandal

In this paper, we focus on the classification of books using short descriptive texts (cover blurbs) and additional metadata. Building upon BERT, a deep neural language model, we demonstrate how to combine text representations with metadata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Malte Ostendorff , Peter Bourgonje , Maria Berger , Julian Moreno-Schneider , Georg Rehm , Bela Gipp

Optical character recognition (OCR) and document understanding systems increasingly rely on large vision and vision-language models, yet evaluation remains centered on modern, Western, and institutional documents. This emphasis masks system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Fitsum Sileshi Beyene , Christopher L. Dancy

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses low-coherence reflectometry to obtain cross-sectional images of inhomogeneous media, such as biological tissue. OCT is particularly useful in the biomedical ea, since the imaging can be performed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Takahisa Mitsui , Kenichiro Aoki

This study addresses the challenge of improving dense retrieval performance for queries containing numerical conditions, such as ``companies with more than one billion dollars in R&D expenditure.'' Although recent research has shown that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haruki Fujimaki , Makoto P. Kato

Test automation has become increasingly important as the complexity of both design and content in Human Machine Interface (HMI) software continues to grow. Current standard practice uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yupeng Cheng , Zi Pong Lim , Sarthak Ketanbhai Modi , Yon Shin Teo , Yushi Cao , Shang-Wei Lin

Medication errors most commonly occur at the ordering or prescribing stage, potentially leading to medical complications and poor health outcomes. While it is possible to catch these errors using different techniques; the focus of this work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yu Jiang , Christian Poellabauer

In this paper, we evaluate state-of-the-art OCR methods on Egocentric data. We annotate text in EPIC-KITCHENS images, and demonstrate that existing OCR methods struggle with rotated text, which is frequently observed on objects being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Valentin Popescu , Dima Damen , Toby Perrett

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

Optical character recognition (OCR), a process that converts printed or handwritten text into machine-readable form, is widely used in assistive technology for people with blindness and low vision. Yet most evaluations rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Junchi Feng , Nikhil Ballem , Mahya Beheshti , Giles Hamilton-Fletcher , Todd Hudson , Maurizio Porfiri , William H. Seiple , John-Ross Rizzo

The biggest challenge in the field of image processing is to recognize documents both in printed and handwritten format. Optical Character Recognition OCR is a type of document image analysis where scanned digital image that contains either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Nisha Vasudeva , Hem Jyotsana Parashar

Our work explores the utilization of deep learning, specifically leveraging the CodeBERT model, to enhance code security testing for Python applications by detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional security testing methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guan-Yan Yang , Yi-Heng Ko , Farn Wang , Kuo-Hui Yeh , Haw-Shiang Chang , Hsueh-Yi Chen