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A novel approach for recognition of handwritten compound Bangla characters, along with the Basic characters of Bangla alphabet, is presented here. Compared to English like Roman script, one of the major stumbling blocks in Optical Character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Nibaran Das , Bindaban Das , Ram Sarkar , Subhadip Basu , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri

Vision-language models (VLMs) can read text from images, but where does this optical character recognition (OCR) information enter the language processing stream? We investigate the OCR routing mechanism across three architecture families…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jonathan Steinberg , Oren Gal

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

Writing is a universal cultural technology that reuses vision for symbolic communication. Humans display striking resilience: we readily recognize words even when characters are fragmented, fused, or partially occluded. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jie Zhang , Ting Xu , Gelei Deng , Runyi Hu , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Ivor Tsang

Scoring the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has witnessed growing interest. Existing benchmarks have highlighted the impressive performance of LMMs in text recognition; however, their…

Handwriting recognition remains challenging for some of the most spoken languages, like Bangla, due to the complexity of line and word segmentation brought by the curvilinear nature of writing and lack of quality datasets. This paper solves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Sheikh Mohammad Jubaer , Nazifa Tabassum , Md. Ataur Rahman , Mohammad Khairul Islam

We introduce a general detection-based approach to text line recognition, be it printed (OCR) or handwritten (HTR), with Latin, Chinese, or ciphered characters. Detection-based approaches have until now been largely discarded for HTR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Raphael Baena , Syrine Kalleli , Mathieu Aubry

The ability to efficiently detect the software protections used is at a prime to facilitate the selection and application of adequate deob-fuscation techniques. We present a novel approach that combines semantic reasoning techniques with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Ramtine Tofighi-Shirazi , Irina Mariuca Asavoae , Philippe Elbaz-Vincent

Scene text recognition (STR) on Latin datasets has been extensively studied in recent years, and state-of-the-art (SOTA) models often reach high accuracy. However, the performance on non-Latin transcripts, such as Chinese, is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Liu Yongbin , Liu Qingjie , Chen Jiaxin , Wang Yunhong

The project comes with the technique of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which includes various research sides of computer science. The project is to take a picture of a character and process it up to recognize the image of that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Arkaprabha Basu , M. Sathya

We present an open-set logo detection (OSLD) system, which can detect (localize and recognize) any number of unseen logo classes without re-training; it only requires a small set of canonical logo images for each logo class. We achieve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Muhammet Bastan , Hao-Yu Wu , Tian Cao , Bhargava Kota , Mehmet Tek

Zero-shot Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (HCCR) aims to recognize unseen characters by leveraging radical-based semantic compositions. However, existing approaches often treat characters as flat radical sequences, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qiuming Luo , Tao Zeng , Feng Li , Heming Liu , Rui Mao , Chang Kong

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

Interpretability in Table Question Answering (Table QA) is critical, especially in high-stakes domains like finance and healthcare. While recent Table QA approaches based on Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve high accuracy, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Giang Nguyen , Ivan Brugere , Shubham Sharma , Sanjay Kariyappa , Anh Totti Nguyen , Freddy Lecue

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

An Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE) is an effective and robust, but resource-intensive, means of evaluating anatomical knowledge. Since most OSPEs employ short answer or fill-in-the-blank style questions, the format…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jason Bernard , Ranil Sonnadara , Anthony N. Saraco , Josh P. Mitchell , Alex B. Bak , Ilana Bayer , Bruce C. Wainman

We propose a novel system for optical encryption based on an optical XOR and optical Linear Feedback Shift Register (oLFSRs). Though we choose LFSR for its ability to process optical signals at line rate, we consider the fact that it offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan

This research paper introduces a novel word-level Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model specifically designed for digital Urdu text, leveraging transformer-based architectures and attention mechanisms to address the distinct challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Muhammad Ijlal Baig , Hasan Sajid , Muhammad Jawad Khan , Karam Dad Kallu

The digitization of scanned forms and documents is changing the data sources that enterprises manage. To integrate these new data sources with enterprise data, the current state-of-the-art approach is to convert the images to ASCII text…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-09 Arun Kumar , Christopher Ré

Identification of fossil species is crucial to evolutionary studies. Recent advances from deep learning have shown promising prospects in fossil image identification. However, the quantity and quality of labeled fossil images are often…

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