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Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have shown great promise over Supervised Learning (SL) ones in low-resource settings. However, the advantages of SSL are gradually weakened when the amount of labeled…

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There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Ahmed Sahlol , Cheng Suen

This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hylke Westerdijk , Ben Blankenborg , Khondoker Ittehadul Islam

The automatic recognition of tabular data in document images presents a significant challenge due to the diverse range of table styles and complex structures. Tables offer valuable content representation, enhancing the predictive…

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Fingerspelling is a component of sign languages in which words are spelled out letter by letter using specific hand poses. Automatic fingerspelling recognition plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between Deaf and hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Junuk Cha , Jihyeon Kim , Han-Mu Park

Most existing learning-based multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) methods suffer from significant structure inconsistency due to their inappropriate usage of structural features at the semantic level. To alleviate these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Qiao Yang , Yu Zhang , Yutong Chen , Jian Zhang , Shunli Zhang

Document parsing is a core task in document intelligence, supporting applications such as information extraction, retrieval-augmented generation, and automated document analysis. However, real-world documents often feature complex layouts…

In this paper, we introduce a model-based omnifont Persian OCR system. The system uses a set of 8 primitive elements as structural features for recognition. First, the scanned document is preprocessed. After normalizing the preprocessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Azarakhsh Keipour , Mohammad Eshghi , Sina Mohammadzadeh Ghadikolaei , Negin Mohammadi , Shahab Ensafi

Kazakh is a Turkic language using the Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin scripts, making it unique in terms of optical character recognition (OCR). Work on OCR for low-resource Kazakh scripts is very scarce, and no OCR benchmarks or images exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Henry Gagnier , Sophie Gagnier , Ashwin Kirubakaran

The objective of the paper is to recognize handwritten samples of lower case Roman script using Tesseract open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine under Apache License 2.0. Handwritten data samples containing isolated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Subhadip Basu

Tombstones are historically and culturally rich artifacts, encapsulating individual lives, community memory, historical narratives and artistic expression. Yet, many tombstones today face significant preservation challenges, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiao Zhang , Johan Bos

Forms are our gates to the web. They enable us to access the deep content of web sites. Automatic form understanding provides applications, ranging from crawlers over meta-search engines to service integrators, with a key to this content.…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Tim Furche , Georg Gottlob , Giovanni Grasso , Xiaonan Guo , Giorgio Orsi , Christian Schallhart

Recent genomic foundation models largely adopt large language model architectures that treat DNA as a one-dimensional token sequence. However, exhaustive sequential reading is structurally misaligned with sparse and discontinuous genomic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hongxin Xiang , Pengsen Ma , Yunkang Cao , Di Yu , Haowen Chen , Xinyu Yang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a process of converting analogue documents into digital using document images. Currently, many commercial and non-commercial OCR systems exist for both handwritten and printed copies for different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Farisa Benta Safir , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. F. Mridha , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar , Md. Abdul Hamid

With the growing adoption of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in document processing, robust text recognition has become increasingly critical for knowledge extraction. While OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for English and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ahmed Heakl , Abdullah Sohail , Mukul Ranjan , Rania Hossam , Ghazi Shazan Ahmad , Mohamed El-Geish , Omar Maher , Zhiqiang Shen , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

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

One important challenge in modern Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval (CBMIR) approaches is represented by the semantic gap, related to the complexity of the medical knowledge. Among the methods that are able to close this gap in CBMIR,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-01 Roxana Teodorescu , Daniel Racoceanu , Wee-Kheng Leow , Vladimir Cretu

Precise 3D environmental mapping is pivotal in robotics. Existing methods often rely on predefined concepts during training or are time-intensive when generating semantic maps. This paper presents Open-Fusion, a groundbreaking approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Kashu Yamazaki , Taisei Hanyu , Khoa Vo , Thang Pham , Minh Tran , Gianfranco Doretto , Anh Nguyen , Ngan Le

Open-vocabulary segmentation enables pixel-level recognition from an open set of textual categories, allowing generalization beyond fixed classes. Despite great potential in remote sensing, progress in this area remains largely limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yimin Wei , Aoran Xiao , Hongruixuan Chen , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

Single online handwritten Chinese character recognition~(single OLHCCR) has achieved prominent performance. However, in real application scenarios, users always write multiple Chinese characters to form one complete sentence and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Yunxin Li , Qian Yang , Qingcai Chen , Lin Ma , Baotian Hu , Xiaolong Wang , Yuxin Ding