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Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a well-established research area. In contrast, Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) is an emerging field with significant potential. This task is challenging due to the variation in individual handwriting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Md. Rakibul Islam , Md. Kamrozzaman Bhuiyan , Safwan Muntasir , Arifur Rahman Jawad , Most. Sharmin Sultana Samu

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 Text Recognition remains challenging due to the limited data, high writing style variance, and scripts with complex diacritics. Existing approaches, though partially address these issues, often struggle to generalize without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Pham Thach Thanh Truc , Dang Hoai Nam , Huynh Tong Dang Khoa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) in free-layout pages is a challenging image understanding task that can provide a relevant boost to the digitization of handwritten documents and reuse of their content. The task becomes even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Silvia Cascianelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) has recently received attention from the computer vision and document analysis communities, which have developed several solutions, either GAN- or diffusion-based, that achieved promising results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Vittorio Pippi , Fabio Quattrini , Silvia Cascianelli , Alessio Tonioni , Rita Cucchiara

While state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models perform well on standard benchmarks, they frequently struggle with writers exhibiting highly specific styles that are underrepresented in the training data. To handle unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom Simon , Stephane Nicolas , Pierrick Tranouez , Clement Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

Historical handwritten text recognition (HTR) is essential for unlocking the cultural and scholarly value of archival documents, yet digitization is often hindered by scarce transcriptions, linguistic variation, and highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Erez Meoded

Despite significant advances in deep learning, current Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems struggle with the inherent complexity of historical documents, including diverse writing styles, degraded text quality, and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Mohammed Hamdan , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a relevant problem in computer vision, and implies unique challenges owing to its inherent variability and the rich contextualization required for its interpretation. Despite the success of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Carlos Penarrubia , Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Jose J. Valero-Mas , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models trained on synthetic handwriting often struggle to generalize to real text, and existing adaptation methods still require real samples from the target domain. In this work, we tackle the fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Aniello Panariello , Silvia Cascianelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Rita Cucchiara

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

As of recent generative adversarial networks have allowed for big leaps in the realism of generated images in diverse domains, not the least of which being handwritten text generation. The generation of realistic-looking hand-written text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Alexander Mattick , Martin Mayr , Mathias Seuret , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

In this paper, we demonstrate how a generative model can be used to build a better recognizer through the control of content and style. We are building an online handwriting recognizer from a modest amount of training samples. By training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Martin Bresler , Youssouf Chherawala , Adrien Delaye , Thomas Deselaers , Ryan Dixon , Oncel Tuzel

In recent years, with the development of deep learning, text generation technology has undergone great changes and provided many kinds of services for human beings, such as restaurant reservation and daily communication. The automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Bin Guo , Hao Wang , Yasan Ding , Wei Wu , Shaoyang Hao , Yueqi Sun , Zhiwen Yu

For successful scene text recognition (STR) models, synthetic text image generators have alleviated the lack of annotated text images from the real world. Specifically, they generate multiple text images with diverse backgrounds, font…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Moonbin Yim , Yoonsik Kim , Han-Cheol Cho , Sungrae Park

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open problem at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The main challenges, when dealing with historical manuscripts, are due to the preservation of the paper support,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Silvia Cascianelli , Vittorio Pippi , Martin Maarand , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

We propose a novel transformer-based styled handwritten text image generation approach, HWT, that strives to learn both style-content entanglement as well as global and local writing style patterns. The proposed HWT captures the long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Generating synthetic images of handwritten text in a writer-specific style is a challenging task, especially in the case of unseen styles and new words, and even more when these latter contain characters that are rarely encountered during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara

This paper proposes a handwritten text recognition(HTR) system that outperforms current state-of-the-artmethods. The comparison was carried out on three of themost frequently used in HTR task datasets, namely Ben-tham, IAM, and Saint Gall.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Alex Shonenkov , Denis Karachev , Maxim Novopoltsev , Mark Potanin , Denis Dimitrov

This paper presents a novel approach to generate synthetic dataset for handwritten word recognition systems. It is difficult to recognize handwritten scripts for which sufficient training data is not readily available or it may be expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Partha Pratim Roy , Akash Mohta , Bidyut B. Chaudhuri