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This paper deals with the task of practical and open source Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) on German medieval manuscripts. We report on our efforts to construct mixed recognition models which can be applied out-of-the-box without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Christian Reul , Stefan Tomasek , Florian Langhanki , Uwe Springmann

Heatmap regression (HR) has become one of the mainstream approaches for face alignment and has obtained promising results under constrained environments. However, when a face image suffers from large pose variations, heavy occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Jun Wan , Zhihui Lai , Jun Liu , Jie Zhou , Can Gao

With the surging inclination towards carrying out tasks on computational devices and digital mediums, any method that converts a task that was previously carried out manually, to a digitized version, is always welcome. Irrespective of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Pranav Guruprasad , Sujith Kumar S , Vigneswaran C , V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy

Faced with continuously increasing scale of data, original back-propagation neural network based machine learning algorithm presents two non-trivial challenges: huge amount of data makes it difficult to maintain both efficiency and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Kairan Sun , Xu Wei , Gengtao Jia , Risheng Wang , Ruizhi Li

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

Document layout analysis aims to detect and categorize structural elements (e.g., titles, tables, figures) in scanned or digital documents. Popular methods often rely on high-quality Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to merge visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Fuyuan Liu , Dianyu Yu , He Ren , Nayu Liu , Xiaomian Kang , Delai Qiu , Fa Zhang , Genpeng Zhen , Shengping Liu , Jiaen Liang , Wei Huang , Yining Wang , Junnan Zhu

Handwriting recognition is a challenging and critical problem in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning a wide range of domains. In this paper, we focus on the specific issue of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Saleh Momeni , Bagher BabaAli

Segmenting handwritten document images into regions with homogeneous patterns is an important pre-processing step for many document images analysis tasks. Hand-labeling data to train a deep learning model for layout analysis requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Ahmad Droby , Berat Kurar Barakat , Borak Madi , Reem Alaasam , Jihad El-Sana

Precise boundary annotations of image regions can be crucial for downstream applications which rely on region-class semantics. Some document collections contain densely laid out, highly irregular and overlapping multi-class region instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Abhishek Trivedi , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

The use of artificial intelligence technology in education is growing rapidly, with increasing attention being paid to handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) by researchers. However, many existing methods for HMER may fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ziqi Ye

Transformer architectures have achieved state-of-the-art performance across natural language tasks, yet they fundamentally misrepresent the hierarchical nature of human language by processing text as flat token sequences. This results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ayan Sar , Sampurna Roy , Kanav Gupta , Anurag Kaushish , Tanupriya Choudhury , Abhijit Kumar

The proliferation of high-dimensional datasets in fields such as genomics, healthcare, and finance has created an urgent need for machine learning models that are both highly accurate and inherently interpretable. While traditional deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rekha R Nair , Tina Babu , Alavikunhu Panthakkan , Hussain Al-Ahmad , Balamurugan Balusamy

Handling large corpuses of documents is of significant importance in many fields, no more so than in the areas of crime investigation and defence, where an organisation may be presented with a large volume of scanned documents which need to…

Handwritten Digit Recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Irrespective of language, there are some inherent challenges of HDR, which mostly arise due to the variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Sabbir Ahmed , Tasnim Ahmed , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Mohammad Ridwan Kabir , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can be improved by including document-level contextual information. For this purpose, we propose a hierarchical attention model to capture the context in a structured and dynamic manner. The model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Lesly Miculicich , Dhananjay Ram , Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson

In this paper, we propose a deep hierarchical attention context model for lossless attribute compression of point clouds, leveraging a multi-resolution spatial structure and residual learning. A simple and effective Level of Detail (LoD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yueru Chen , Wei Zhang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Ge Li

A large number of deep learning models have been proposed for the text matching problem, which is at the core of various typical natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, existing deep models are mainly designed for the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Ting Zhang , Bang Liu , Di Niu , Kunfeng Lai , Yu Xu

At present, attention mechanism has been widely applied to the fields of deep learning models. Structural models that based on attention mechanism can not only record the relationships between features position, but also can measure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xiaolong Wei , LiFang Yang , Xianglin Huang , Gang Cao , Tao Zhulin , Zhengyang Du , Jing An

This paper presents a new state-of-the-art for document image classification and retrieval, using features learned by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In object and scene analysis, deep neural nets are capable of learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Adam W. Harley , Alex Ufkes , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

This technical report documents the development of novel Layout Analysis models integrated into the Docling document-conversion pipeline. We trained several state-of-the-art object detectors based on the RT-DETR, RT-DETRv2 and DFINE…