Refined and Locality-Enhanced Feature for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition

  • Liu Yu*
  • , Xiangcheng Du
  • , Ziang Liu
  • , Daoguo Dong*
  • , Liang He*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Many studies have been conducted on handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) based on encoder-decoder architecture. However, the previous methods fail to predict accurate results due to low-quality images such as blur, complex background and distortion. In addition, ambiguous or subtle symbols caused by different handwriting styles are often recognized incorrectly. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for HMER to deal with the above issues. Specifically, we propose a Dual-branch Refinement Module (DRM) to deal with the challenging disturbances. In terms of ambiguous or subtle symbols, we believe that the combination of local and global information is beneficial to recognizing these symbols. Therefore, we design a Local Feature Enhancement Module (LFEM) to enhance local features, which can cooperate with global information extracted by the following transformer decoder. Extensive experimental results on CROHME and HME100K datasets verify the effectiveness of our method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition and Computer Vision - 7th Chinese Conference, PRCV 2024, Proceedings
EditorsZhouchen Lin, Hongbin Zha, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ran He, Cheng-Lin Liu, Kurban Ubul, Wushouer Silamu, Jie Zhou
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages30-43
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9789819785100
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024 - Urumqi, China
Duration: 18 Oct 202420 Oct 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15037 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024
Country/TerritoryChina
CityUrumqi
Period18/10/2420/10/24

Keywords

  • Handwritten mathematical expression recognition
  • feature refinement
  • local feature enhancement
  • transformer

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