Quo Vadis Handwritten Text Generation for Handwritten Text Recognition?
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| author | Pippi, Vittorio Nikolaidou, Konstantina Cascianelli, Silvia Retsinas, George Sfikas, Giorgos Cucchiara, Rita Liwicki, Marcus |
| author_facet | Pippi, Vittorio Nikolaidou, Konstantina Cascianelli, Silvia Retsinas, George Sfikas, Giorgos Cucchiara, Rita Liwicki, Marcus |
| contents | The digitization of historical manuscripts presents significant challenges for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems, particularly when dealing with small, author-specific collections that diverge from the training data distributions. Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) techniques, which generate synthetic data tailored to specific handwriting styles, offer a promising solution to address these challenges. However, the effectiveness of various HTG models in enhancing HTR performance, especially in low-resource transcription settings, has not been thoroughly evaluated. In this work, we systematically compare three state-of-the-art styled HTG models (representing the generative adversarial, diffusion, and autoregressive paradigms for HTG) to assess their impact on HTR fine-tuning. We analyze how visual and linguistic characteristics of synthetic data influence fine-tuning outcomes and provide quantitative guidelines for selecting the most effective HTG model. The results of our analysis provide insights into the current capabilities of HTG methods and highlight key areas for further improvement in their application to low-resource HTR. |
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| spellingShingle | Quo Vadis Handwritten Text Generation for Handwritten Text Recognition? Pippi, Vittorio Nikolaidou, Konstantina Cascianelli, Silvia Retsinas, George Sfikas, Giorgos Cucchiara, Rita Liwicki, Marcus Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Digital Libraries The digitization of historical manuscripts presents significant challenges for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems, particularly when dealing with small, author-specific collections that diverge from the training data distributions. Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) techniques, which generate synthetic data tailored to specific handwriting styles, offer a promising solution to address these challenges. However, the effectiveness of various HTG models in enhancing HTR performance, especially in low-resource transcription settings, has not been thoroughly evaluated. In this work, we systematically compare three state-of-the-art styled HTG models (representing the generative adversarial, diffusion, and autoregressive paradigms for HTG) to assess their impact on HTR fine-tuning. We analyze how visual and linguistic characteristics of synthetic data influence fine-tuning outcomes and provide quantitative guidelines for selecting the most effective HTG model. The results of our analysis provide insights into the current capabilities of HTG methods and highlight key areas for further improvement in their application to low-resource HTR. |
| title | Quo Vadis Handwritten Text Generation for Handwritten Text Recognition? |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Digital Libraries |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09936 |