中国科学院自动化研究所机构知识库

Recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions (MEs) is an important problem that has wide applications in practice. HandwrittenME recognition is challenging due to the variety of writing styles andMEformats. As a result, recognizers trained by optimizing the traditional supervision loss do not perform satisfactorily. To improve the robustness of the recognizer with respect to writing styles, in this work, we propose a novel paired adversarial learning method to learn semantic-invariant features. Specifically, our proposed model, named PAL-v2, consists of an attention-based recognizer and a discriminator. During training, handwritten MEs and their printed templates are fed into PAL-v2 simultaneously. The attention-based recognizer is trained to learn semantic-invariant features with the guide of the discriminator. Moreover, we adopt a convolutional decoder to alleviate the vanishing and exploding gradient problems of RNN-based decoder, and further, improve the coverage of decoding with a novel attention method. We conducted extensive experiments on the CROHME dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of each part of the method and achieved state-of-the-art performance.