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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…
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…
A Fair Evaluation of Various Deep Learning-Based Document Image Binarization Approaches
Richin Sukesh, Mathias Seuret, Anguelos Nicolaou +2
Binarization of document images is an important pre-processing step in the field of document analysis. Traditional image binarization techniques usually rely on histograms or local…
Combining OCR Models for Reading Early Modern Printed Books
Mathias Seuret, Janne van der Loop, Nikolaus Weichselbaumer +6
In this paper, we investigate the usage of fine-grained font recognition on OCR for books printed from the 15th to the 18th century. We used a newly created dataset for OCR of earl…