2 papers
cs.CV2026
A Multi-Stage Framework for Kuzushiji Character Recognition in Japanese Historical Documents
Rui-Yang Ju, Kohei Yamashita, Hirotaka Kameko +1
Kuzushiji was a widely used cursive writing system in pre-modern Japan. Due to simplification and glyph variation, most modern Japanese readers cannot read Kuzushiji characters. Co…
cs.CV2025
DKDS: A Benchmark Dataset of Degraded Kuzushiji Documents with Seals for Detection and Binarization
Rui-Yang Ju, Kohei Yamashita, Hirotaka Kameko +1
Kuzushiji, a pre-modern Japanese cursive script, can currently be read and understood by only a few thousand trained experts in Japan. With the rapid development of deep learning,…