4 papers
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…
Cascade-Free Mandarin Visual Speech Recognition via Semantic-Guided Cross-Representation Alignment
Lei Yang, Yi He, Fei Wu +1
Chinese mandarin visual speech recognition (VSR) is a task that has advanced in recent years, yet still lags behind the performance on non-tonal languages such as English. One prim…
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…
Zero-Shot Paragraph-level Handwriting Imitation with Latent Diffusion Models
Martin Mayr, Marcel Dreier, Florian Kordon +5
The imitation of cursive handwriting is mainly limited to generating handwritten words or lines. Multiple synthetic outputs must be stitched together to create paragraphs or whole…