4 papers
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…
Validated Adaptation for Aerial Crowd Monitoring at Mass Gathering Scale: A Deployment Protocol, a Severity Law, and a Diagnostic for Label-Free Drone Crowd Counting, Toward the FIFA World Cup 2034 (Saudi Arabia)
AlAnoud AllGhayth, AlJawharh AlOtaibi, Jude AlSubaie
Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 FIFA World Cup and already operates crowd management at Hajj scale. Drone-based counting must hold accuracy on footage unlike anything in its traini…
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…
When Does Small Data Work? Accuracy and Efficiency Trade-offs Between Tabular Foundation Models and Conventional Methods for Crowd-State Classification at Hajj and Umrah
AlJawharh S. AlOtaibi, Mohamed Eltahir, Jude AlSubaie
Learning from few labeled examples is a central challenge in tabular machine learning, and it becomes the binding constraint in domains where labeling is costly, such as crowd moni…