17 papers
FAU at ImageCLEF 2026 Task on Multimodal Reasoning Robust Candidate Scoring and Concise Multilingual Visual Answering
Mohamed Basem, Vincent Christlein
We present our ImageCLEF 2026 Multimodal Reasoning system for the Visual Multiple Choice Question Answering (Visual MCQ) and Visual Open Question Answering (Visual OpenQA) subtasks…
Zero-Shot Paragraph-level Handwriting Imitation with Latent Diffusion Models
Martin Mayr, Marcel Dreier, Florian Kordon +5
The paper presents a zero-shot method for generating entire paragraphs of handwritten text in unseen styles using a modified latent diffusion model that jointly conditions on a sty…
Tokenization vs. Augmentation: A Systematic Study of Writer Variance in IMU-Based Online Handwriting Recognition
Jindong Li, Dario Zanca, Vincent Christlein +4
Inertial measurement unit-based online handwriting recognition enables the recognition of input signals collected across different writing surfaces but remains challenged by uneven…
Enhancing IMU-Based Online Handwriting Recognition via Contrastive Learning with Zero Inference Overhead
Jindong Li, Dario Zanca, Vincent Christlein +4
Online handwriting recognition using inertial measurement units opens up handwriting on paper as input for digital devices. Doing it on edge hardware improves privacy and lowers la…
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…