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Large Language Models (LLMs) are now capable of generating text that closely resembles human writing, making them powerful tools for content creation, but this growing ability has also made it harder to tell whether a piece of text was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Ammar , Hadiya Murad Hadi , Usman Majeed Butt

This paper describes a new feature set, called the extended directional features (EDF) for use in the recognition of online handwritten strokes. We use EDF specifically to recognize strokes that form a basis for producing Devanagari script,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Lajish VL , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Latin has historically led the state-of-the-art in handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) research. Adapting existing systems from Latin to alpha-syllabary languages is particularly challenging due to a sharp contrast between their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Samiul Alam , Tahsin Reasat , Asif Shahriyar Sushmit , Sadi Mohammad Siddiquee , Fuad Rahman , Mahady Hasan , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun

Digit, letter and word recognition for a particular script has various applications in todays commercial contexts. Nevertheless, only a limited number of relevant studies have dealt with Persian scripts. In this paper, deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mehdi Bonyani , Simindokht Jahangard , Morteza Daneshmand

Handwritten digit recognition is one of the extensively studied area in machine learning. Apart from the wider research on handwritten digit recognition on MNIST dataset, there are many other research works on various script recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Durga Prasad Sharma , Randolf Scholz

In order to provide benchmark performance for Urdu text document classification, the contribution of this paper is manifold. First, it pro-vides a publicly available benchmark dataset manually tagged against 6 classes. Second, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Muhammad Nabeel Asim , Muhammad Usman Ghani , Muhammad Ali Ibrahim , Sheraz Ahmad , Waqar Mahmood , Andreas Dengel

India is a multi-lingual country where Roman script is often used alongside different Indic scripts in a text document. To develop a script specific handwritten Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, it is therefore necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Ram Sarkar , Nibaran Das , Subhadip Basu , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

Understanding what linguistic components (e.g., phonological, semantic, and orthographic systems) modulate Chinese handwriting at the character, radical, and stroke levels remains an important yet understudied topic. Additionally, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zebo Xu , Shaoyun Yu , Mark Torrance , Guido Nottbusch , Nan Zhao , Zhenguang Cai

Script identification and text recognition are some of the major domains in the application of Artificial Intelligence. In this era of digitalization, the use of digital note-taking has become a common practice. Still, conventional methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Sidhantha Poddar , Rohan Gupta

We present Bharati, a simple, novel script that can represent the characters of a majority of contemporary Indian scripts. The shapes/motifs of Bharati characters are drawn from some of the simplest characters of existing Indian scripts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Manali Naik , V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy

The recognition of cursive script is regarded as a subtle task in optical character recognition due to its varied representation. Every cursive script has different nature and associated challenges. As Urdu is one of cursive language that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Saad Bin Ahmed , Saeeda Naz , Salahuddin Swati , Muhammad Imran Razzak

Currently, the prevalence of online handwriting has spurred a critical need for effective retrieval systems to accurately search relevant handwriting instances from specific writers, known as online writer retrieval. Despite the growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Peirong Zhang , Lianwen Jin

In this work, we propose MetaScript, a novel Chinese content generation system designed to address the diminishing presence of personal handwriting styles in the digital representation of Chinese characters. Our approach harnesses the power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xiangyuan Xue , Kailing Wang , Jiazi Bu , Qirui Li , Zhiyuan Zhang

In this paper a scheme for offline Handwritten Devnagari Character Recognition is proposed, which uses different feature extraction methodologies and recognition algorithms. The proposed system assumes no constraints in writing style or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-01 S. Arora , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , M. Nasipuri , D. K. Basu , M. Kundu

Developing an automatic signature verification system is challenging and demands a large number of training samples. This is why synthetic handwriting generation is an emerging topic in document image analysis. Some handwriting synthesizers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Miguel A. Ferrer , Sukalpa Chanda , Moises Diaz , Chayan Kr. Banerjee , Anirban Majumdar , Cristina Carmona-Duarte , Parikshit Acharya , Umapada Pal

In this paper, we propose a novel approach of word-level Indic script identification using only character-level data in training stage. The advantages of using character level data for training have been outlined in section I. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Subham Mukherjee , Aneeshan Sain , Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Partha Pratim Roy , Umapada Pal

Handwritten font generation is important for preserving cultural heritage and creating personalized designs. It adds an authentic and expressive touch to printed materials, making them visually appealing and establishing a stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Preeti P. Bhatt , Jitendra V. Nasriwala , Rakesh R. Savant

Arabic text diacritization remains a persistent challenge in natural language processing due to the language's morphological richness. In this paper, we introduce Sadeed, a novel approach based on a fine-tuned decoder-only language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zeina Aldallal , Sara Chrouf , Khalil Hennara , Mohamed Motaism Hamed , Muhammad Hreden , Safwan AlModhayan

In this paper a method for recognition of handwritten devanagari characters is described. Here, feature vector is constituted by accumulated directional gradient changes in different segments, number of intersections points for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Sandhya Arora , Latesh Malik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri

Representing a space of handwriting stroke styles includes the challenge of representing both the style of each character and the overall style of the human writer. Existing VRNN approaches to representing handwriting often do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Atsunobu Kotani , Stefanie Tellex , James Tompkin