4 papers
Handwriting Extraction and Analysis of Signature Lists in Swiss Popular Initiatives
Marco Peer, Thomas Gorges, Mathias Seuret +2
Popular initiatives and referendums are central to Swiss democracy, yet the validation of handwritten signature lists remains a labor-intensive manual process. This paper investiga…
ICDAR 2026 Competition on Writer Identification and Pen Classification from Hand-Drawn Circles
Thomas Gorges, Janne van der Loop, Lukas Hüttner +4
This paper presents CircleID, a large-scale ICDAR 2026 competition on writer identification and pen classification from scanned hand-drawn circles. The primary objective is to inve…
Perceptual implications of automatic anonymization in pathological speech
Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Saba Afza, Tri-Thien Nguyen +11
Automatic anonymization is increasingly used to enable ethical sharing of clinical speech, yet its perceptual and clinical consequences remain undercharacterized. We present a huma…
DRetHTR: Linear-Time Decoder-Only Retentive Network for Handwritten Text Recognition
Changhun Kim, Martin Mayr, Thomas Gorges +4
State-of-the-art handwritten text recognition (HTR) systems commonly use Transformers, whose growing key-value (KV) cache makes decoding slow and memory-intensive. We introduce DRe…