2 papers
cs.LG2026
Does a Modern-Handwriting Warm-Up Help Historical Arabic OCR? A Reproducible, Compute-Matched Evaluation on Muharaf and KHATT
Sumaih Almarshad, Maram Alamri, Dona Aloraini +4
Whether an intermediate stage of modern Arabic handwriting helps or hurts historical Arabic HTR is usually decided from one implementation and one comparison, too thin a basis for…
cs.CV2026
HAJJv2-CrowdCount: Zero-Shot Benchmark for Dense Crowd Counting
Reem AlYabis, Fares AlTuwaim, AlJawharh AlOtaibi +1
Automated crowd counting in Hajj video is difficult not because current models lack capacity, but because the footage violates the assumptions those models were built on: cameras o…