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Lot Machine: Multimodal Lot Extraction from Auction Catalogs
Mathias Zinnen, Alisha Mund, Sabine Lang +3
For provenance research and art market studies, auction catalogs are an essential resource to trace specific objects over time and space. While historical auction catalogs follow e…
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…
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…