text: 127,80,1394355141432709129,3100596960,Walter Scheirer,"Lots of projects (especially in the DH world) can benefit from good automated handwriting analysis. A major confound (surprise) is when new things are encountered. My lab takes a look at this in our ICDAR 2021 paper ""Handwriting Recognition with Novelty"" <LINK> <LINK> Here we formalize the problem, introduce an agent-centric approach as a baseline solution, and introduce a new dataset and evaluation protocols. This is work coming out of the @DARPA SAIL-ON program, which has a terrific stable of problem domains with aspects of novelty.",https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06582,"This paper introduces an agent-centric approach to handle novelty in the visual recognition domain of handwriting recognition (HWR). An ideal transcription agent would rival or surpass human perception, being able to recognize known and new characters in an image, and detect any stylistic changes that may occur within or across documents. A key confound is the presence of novelty, which has continued to stymie even the best machine learning-based algorithms for these tasks. In handwritten documents, novelty can be a change in writer, character attributes, writing attributes, or overall document appearance, among other things. Instead of looking at each aspect independently, we suggest that an integrated agent that can process known characters and novelties simultaneously is a better strategy. This paper formalizes the domain of handwriting recognition with novelty, describes a baseline agent, introduces an evaluation protocol with benchmark data, and provides experimentation to set the state-of-the-art. Results show feasibility for the agent-centric approach, but more work is needed to approach human-levels of reading ability, giving the HWR community a formal basis to build upon as they solve this challenging problem. ",Handwriting Recognition with Novelty,2,"['Lots of projects (especially in the DH world) can benefit from good automated handwriting analysis. A major confound (surprise) is when new things are encountered. My lab takes a look at this in our ICDAR 2021 paper ""Handwriting Recognition with Novelty""\n\n<LINK> <LINK>', 'Here we formalize the problem, introduce an agent-centric approach as a baseline solution, and introduce a new dataset and evaluation protocols. This is work coming out of the @DARPA SAIL-ON program, which has a terrific stable of problem domains with aspects of novelty.']",21,05,540