Ekta Vats
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Information Technology; Division of Systems and Control
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 34 40
- E-mail:
- ekta.vats@it.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- Docent
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-4480-3158
Short presentation
I am an Assistant Professor in Machine Learning, Docent in Computerised Image Processing, and a Beijer Researcher at The Beijer Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research. I lead the Uppsala Vision, Language and Learning group and our research mission is to build fundamental AI/ML methods for computer vision and language modeling to address societal challenges.
Keywords
- image analysis
- digital humanities
- natural language processing
- data science
- machine learning
- deep learning
- human action recognition
- handwritten text recognition
- computer vision
- artifical intelligence
- ocr
- language modeling
- large language models (llm)
Research
Our research is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, and spans topics such as Large Language Models in Computer Vision and NLP, text/image/video classification, text recognition (OCR, Handwritten), multispectral imaging, and NLP tasks (sentiment analysis, Named entity recognition).
Research group: Uppsala Vision, Language and Learning
Media
Beijer Research Group Profile
Get an understanding of my ongoing research in the lab in the video
Beijer Researcher at the Beijer Foundation
How AI and machine learning can help address societal challenges?
https://www.beijerstiftelsen.se/en/component/zoo/researchers/ekta-vats-en?Itemid=234
Publications
Selection of publications
Part of In Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), p. 111-120, 2024
Paired Image to Image Translation for Strikethrough Removal from Handwritten Words
Part of DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DAS 2022, p. 309-322, 2022
AttentionHTR: Handwritten Text Recognition Based on Attention Encoder-Decoder Networks
Part of DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DAS 2022, p. 507-522, 2022
Strikethrough Removal from Handwritten Words Using CycleGANs
Part of Document Analysis and Recognition -- ICDAR 2021, p. 572-586, 2021
Training-Free and Segmentation-Free Word Spotting using Feature Matching and Query Expansion
Part of Proc. 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2019
Learning surrogate models of document image quality metrics for automated document image processing
Part of Proc. 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, p. 67-72, 2018
Automatic document image binarization using Bayesian optimization
Part of Proc. 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, p. 89-94, 2017
Recent publications
Part of In Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), p. 111-120, 2024
Automatic classification of historical texts using a BERT model: News about wild berries, 1860-1910
Part of Book of Abstracts, DH Benelux 2023, May 31-June 2, Brussels, Belgium, p. 1-4, 2023
Paired Image to Image Translation for Strikethrough Removal from Handwritten Words
Part of DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DAS 2022, p. 309-322, 2022
AttentionHTR: Handwritten Text Recognition Based on Attention Encoder-Decoder Networks
Part of DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DAS 2022, p. 507-522, 2022
Strikethrough Removal from Handwritten Words Using CycleGANs
Part of Document Analysis and Recognition -- ICDAR 2021, p. 572-586, 2021
All publications
Articles in journal
Word Recognition using Embedded Prototype Subspace Classifiers on a new Imbalanced Dataset
Part of Journal of WSCG, p. 39-47, 2021
The Significance of Script Proportions in the Medieval Swedish Script
Part of Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 2021
Part of Human IT, p. 95-120, 2019
Radial line Fourier descriptor for historical handwritten text representation
Part of Journal of WSCG, p. 31-40, 2018
Conference papers
Part of In Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), p. 111-120, 2024
Automatic classification of historical texts using a BERT model: News about wild berries, 1860-1910
Part of Book of Abstracts, DH Benelux 2023, May 31-June 2, Brussels, Belgium, p. 1-4, 2023
Paired Image to Image Translation for Strikethrough Removal from Handwritten Words
Part of DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DAS 2022, p. 309-322, 2022
AttentionHTR: Handwritten Text Recognition Based on Attention Encoder-Decoder Networks
Part of DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS, DAS 2022, p. 507-522, 2022
Strikethrough Removal from Handwritten Words Using CycleGANs
Part of Document Analysis and Recognition -- ICDAR 2021, p. 572-586, 2021
Embedded Prototype Subspace Classification: A subspace learning framework
Part of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2019, PT II, p. 581-592, 2019
Training-Free and Segmentation-Free Word Spotting using Feature Matching and Query Expansion
Part of Proc. 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2019
Subspace Learning and Classification
Part of Proc. 3rd Swedish Symposium on Deep Learning, 2019
Creating an Atlas over Handwritten Script Signs
Part of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 2019
Making large collections of handwritten material easily accessible and searchable
Part of Digital Libraries, p. 18-28, 2019
Extracting script features from a large corpus of handwritten documents
Part of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 2018
Word Spotting in Historical Handwritten Manuscripts using Capsule Networks
2018
2018
Radial line Fourier descriptor for historical handwritten text representation
Part of Proc. 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics, 2018
Learning surrogate models of document image quality metrics for automated document image processing
Part of Proc. 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, p. 67-72, 2018
Part of Proc. 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, 2018
TexT – Text extractor tool for handwritten document transcription and annotation
Part of Digital Libraries and Multimedia Archives, p. 81-92, 2018
On-the-fly historical handwritten text annotation
Part of Proc. 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, p. 10-14, 2017
Automatic document image binarization using Bayesian optimization
Part of Proc. 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, p. 89-94, 2017