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In this work, we propose a novel framework named Coconditional Autoencoding Adversarial Networks (CocoAAN) for Chinese font learning, which jointly learns a generation network and two encoding networks of different feature domains using an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Zhizhan Zheng , Feiyun Zhang

The problem of optical character recognition, OCR, has been widely discussed in the literature. Having a hand-written text, the program aims at recognizing the text. Even though there are several approaches to this issue, it is still an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Wei Wang

Digit, letter and word recognition for a particular script has various applications in todays commercial contexts. Nevertheless, only a limited number of relevant studies have dealt with Persian scripts. In this paper, deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mehdi Bonyani , Simindokht Jahangard , Morteza Daneshmand

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of eighteenth-century printed texts remains challenging due to degraded print quality, archaic glyphs, and non-standardized orthography. Although transformer-based OCR systems and Vision-Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ari Vesalainen , Eetu Mäkelä , Laura Ruotsalainen , Mikko Tolonen

While Vision-language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong semantic capabilities, their ability to interpret the underlying geometric structure of visual information is less explored. Pictographic characters, which combine visual form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zihao Wan , Pau Tong Lin Xu , Fuwen Luo , Ziyue Wang , Peng Li , Yang Liu

In this paper we present an OCR for Handwritten Devnagari Characters. Basic symbols are recognized by neural classifier. We have used four feature extraction techniques namely, intersection, shadow feature, chain code histogram and straight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Sandhya Arora , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu , Mahantapas Kundu

Online handwriting generation (OHG) enhances handwriting recognition models by synthesizing diverse, human-like samples. However, existing OHG methods struggle to generate unseen characters, particularly in glyph-based languages like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tsai-Ling Huang , Nhat-Tuong Do-Tran , Ngoc-Hoang-Lam Le , Hong-Han Shuai , Ching-Chun Huang

The paper examines deep learning models for scribe verification in Chinese manuscripts. That is, to automatically determine whether two manuscript fragments were written by the same scribe using deep metric learning methods. Two datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dimitrios-Chrysovalantis Liakopoulos , Yanbo Zhang , Chongsheng Zhang , Constantine Kotropoulos

Conventional optical character recognition (OCR) techniques segmented each character and then recognized. This made them prone to error in character segmentation, and devoid of context to exploit language models. Advances in sequence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shashank Vempati , Nishit Anand , Gaurav Talebailkar , Arpan Garai , Chetan Arora

Text recognition is a major computer vision task with a big set of associated challenges. One of those traditional challenges is the coupled nature of text recognition and segmentation. This problem has been progressively solved over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Mohamed Yousef , Tom E. Bishop

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in multilingual, noisy, and diverse real-world images remains a significant challenge for optical character recognition systems. With the rise of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), there is growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Aryan Gupta , Anupam Purwar

In this paper, we investigate the Chinese calligraphy synthesis problem: synthesizing Chinese calligraphy images with specified style from standard font(eg. Hei font) images (Fig. 1(a)). Recent works mostly follow the stroke extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pengyuan Lyu , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao , Zhen Zhu , Tengteng Huang , Wenyu Liu

We propose a novel multi-stream architecture and training methodology that exploits semantic labels for facial image deblurring. The proposed Uncertainty Guided Multi- Stream Semantic Network (UMSN) processes regions belonging to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Rajeev Yasarla , Federico Perazzi , Vishal M. Patel

As font is one of the core design concepts, automatic font identification and similar font suggestion from an image or photo has been on the wish list of many designers. We study the Visual Font Recognition (VFR) problem, and advance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Zhangyang Wang , Jianchao Yang , Hailin Jin , Eli Shechtman , Aseem Agarwala , Jonathan Brandt , Thomas S. Huang

Designing fonts for Chinese characters is highly labor-intensive and time-consuming. While the latest methods successfully generate the English alphabet vector font, despite the high demand for automatic font generation, Chinese vector font…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Haruka Aoki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

The ultimate aim of handwriting recognition is to make computers able to read and/or authenticate human written texts, with a performance comparable to or even better than that of humans. Reading means that the computer is given a piece of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Manal A. Abdullah , Lulwah M. Al-Harigy , Hanadi H. Al-Fraidi

Handwritten Arabic script recognition is a challenging task due to the script's dynamic letter forms and contextual variations. This paper proposes a hybrid approach combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chaouki Boufenar , Mehdi Ayoub Rabiai , Boualem Nadjib Zahaf , Khelil Rafik Ouaras

We introduce Chinese Text in the Wild, a very large dataset of Chinese text in street view images. While optical character recognition (OCR) in document images is well studied and many commercial tools are available, detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Tai-Ling Yuan , Zhe Zhu , Kun Xu , Cheng-Jun Li , Shi-Min Hu

Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form performed with brushes so Chinese characters are rich of shapes and details. Recent studies show that Chinese characters can be generated through image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Shan-Jean Wu , Chih-Yuan Yang , Jane Yung-jen Hsu

Some historical and more recent printed documents have been scanned or stored at very low resolutions, such as 60 dpi. Though such scans are relatively easy for humans to read, they still present significant challenges for optical character…

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