historyHulk/MoDeTrans

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• translation

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@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-032-04630-7_3,
author="Kausadikar, Harshal
and Kale, Tanvi
and Susladkar, Onkar
and Mittal, Sparsh",
editor="Yin, Xu-Cheng
and Karatzas, Dimosthenis
and Lopresti, Daniel",
title="Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: A Novel Dataset and A VLM Framework for Transliteration of Modi Script to Devanagari",
booktitle="Document Analysis and Recognition --  ICDAR 2025",
year="2026",
publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland",
address="Cham",
pages="40--61",
abstract="In medieval India, the Marathi language was written using the Modi script. The texts written in Modi script include extensive knowledge about medieval sciences, medicines, land records and authentic evidence about Indian history. Around 40 million documents are in poor condition and have not yet been transliterated. Furthermore, only a few experts in this domain can transliterate this script into English or Devanagari. Most of the past research predominantly focuses on individual character recognition. A system that can transliterate Modi script documents to Devanagari script is needed. We propose the MoDeTrans dataset, comprising 2,043 images of Modi script documents accompanied by their corresponding textual transliterations in Devanagari. We further introduce MoScNet (Modi Script Network), a novel Vision-Language Model (VLM) framework for transliterating Modi script images into Devanagari text. MoScNet leverages Knowledge Distillation, where a student model learns from a teacher model to enhanc

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