English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards Scalable Training for Handwritten Mathemat…

200 papers

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has become an essential field within pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning historical document preservation to modern data entry and accessibility solutions. The complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Antonio Rios-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Arabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) is challenging, especially for historical texts, due to diverse writing styles and the intrinsic features of Arabic script. Additionally, Arabic handwriting datasets are smaller compared to English…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Adrian Chan , Anupam Mijar , Mehreen Saeed , Chau-Wai Wong , Akram Khater

Handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) suffers from complex formula structures and character layouts in sequence prediction. In this paper, we incorporate frequency domain analysis into HMER and propose a method that marries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Huanxin Yang , Qiwen Wang

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) remains a challenging problem to date, largely due to the varying writing styles that exist amongst us. Prior works however generally operate with the assumption that there is a limited number of styles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Shuvozit Ghose , Amandeep Kumar , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yi-Zhe Song

Offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems play a crucial role in applications such as historical document digitization, automatic form processing, and biometric authentication. However, their performance is often hindered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yassin Hussein Rassul , Aram M. Ahmed , Polla Fattah , Bryar A. Hassan , Arwaa W. Abdulkareem , Tarik A. Rashid , Joan Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with long-context reasoning, not only due to the quadratic scaling of computational complexity with sequence length but also because of the scarcity and expense of annotating long-context data. There…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Linda He , Jue Wang , Maurice Weber , Shang Zhu , Ben Athiwaratkun , Ce Zhang

Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) is a challenging task with many educational applications. Recent methods for HMER have been developed for complex mathematical expressions in standard horizontal format. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Daniel Rosa , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Ruan Carvalho , Everton Souza , Sergio Chevtchenko , Luiz Rodrigues , Marcelo Marinho , Thales Vieira , Valmir Macario

The paper discusses an approach to decipher large collections of handwritten index cards of historical dictionaries. Our study provides a working solution that reads the cards, and links their lemmas to a searchable list of dictionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jan Idziak , Artjoms Šeļa , Michał Woźniak , Albert Leśniak , Joanna Byszuk , Maciej Eder

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various tasks, yet code generation remains a major challenge. Current approaches for obtaining high-quality code data primarily focus on (i) collecting large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yichuan Ma , Yunfan Shao , Peiji Li , Demin Song , Qipeng Guo , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu , Kai Chen

Offline Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) is a major area in the field of mathematical expression recognition. Offline HMER is often viewed as a much harder problem as compared to online HMER due to a lack of temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ujjwal Thakur , Anuj Sharma

This work proposes an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model for handwritten word recognition and explores transfer learning for data-efficient training of HTR systems. To overcome training data scarcity, this work leverages models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dmitrijs Kass , Ekta Vats

The paper introduces the UniMER dataset, marking the first study on Mathematical Expression Recognition (MER) targeting complex real-world scenarios. The UniMER dataset includes a large-scale training set, UniMER-1M, which offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bin Wang , Zhuangcheng Gu , Guang Liang , Chao Xu , Bo Zhang , Botian Shi , Conghui He

Handwritten mathematical expression recognition is a challenging problem due to the complicated two-dimensional structures, ambiguous handwriting input and variant scales of handwritten math symbols. To settle this problem, we utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Jianshu Zhang , Jun Du , Lirong Dai

Despite recent significant advancements in Handwritten Document Recognition (HDR), the efficient and accurate recognition of text against complex backgrounds, diverse handwriting styles, and varying document layouts remains a practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Wenhao Gu , Li Gu , Ziqiang Wang , Ching Yee Suen , Yang Wang

Handwriting recognition has seen significant success with the use of deep learning. However, a persistent shortcoming of neural networks is that they are not well-equipped to deal with shifting data distributions. In the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Tobias van der Werff , Maruf A. Dhali , Lambert Schomaker

Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition is foundational for educational technologies, enabling applications like digital note-taking and automated grading. While modern encoder-decoder architectures with large language models excel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jakob Seitz , Tobias Lengfeld , Radu Timofte

Performances of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models are largely determined by the availability of labeled and representative training samples. However, in many application scenarios labeled samples are scarce or costly to obtain. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Fabian Wolf , Gernot A. Fink

The recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions in images and video frames is a difficult and unsolved problem yet. Deep convectional neural networks are basically a promising approach, but typically require a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Matthias Springstein , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has established that scaling compute, through joint increases in model capacity and dataset size, is the primary driver of performance in modern machine learning. While machine learning has long…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-18 Matthias Vigl , Nicole Hartman , Michael Kagan , Lukas Heinrich

Printed mathematical expression recognition (MER) models are usually trained and tested using LaTeX-generated mathematical expressions (MEs) as input and the LaTeX source code as ground truth. As the same ME can be generated by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Felix M. Schmitt-Koopmann , Elaine M. Huang , Hans-Peter Hutter , Thilo Stadelmann , Alireza Darvishy