4 papers
Text region detection in historical astronomical diagrams
Zeynep Sonat Baltacı, Raphaël Baena, Fei Meng +4
Text detection is a crucial task in the analysis of historical documents. While datasets and benchmarks exist for text detection in manuscripts and maps, the study of text in mathe…
Leveraging Morphology for Historical Script Metrological Analysis
Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou, Raphaël Baena, Dominique Stutzmann +1
Advances in handwritten text recognition have enabled large-scale transcription of historical documents, but still provide limited access to interpretable visual measurements for p…
PoM: A Linear-Time Replacement for Attention with the Polynomial Mixer
David Picard, Nicolas Dufour, Lucas Degeorge +14
This paper introduces the Polynomial Mixer (PoM), a novel token mixing mechanism with linear complexity that serves as a drop-in replacement for self-attention. PoM aggregates inpu…
General Detection-based Text Line Recognition
Raphael Baena, Syrine Kalleli, Mathieu Aubry
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 app…