Leveraging Morphology for Historical Script Metrological Analysis
Advances in handwritten text recognition have enabled large-scale transcription of historical documents, but still provide limited access to interpretable visual measurements for paleography, the study of historical scripts. In this paper, our main insight is that morphological script analysis, in particular the capacity to learn character prototypes from line-level transcriptions, enables the definition of scalable, meaningful, and stable paleographic measurements. More precisely, we leverage a transformer-based detection architecture together with a prototype-based line reconstruction module to learn prototypical characters and their occurrence, deformation, and positioning. Our contrib...
| Authors | Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou, Raphaël Baena, Dominique Stutzmann et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 8 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 June 2026 |
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