The present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in Iranian EFL setting. Sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on Nelson language proficiency test. Then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

Image-text retrieval plays a central role in bridging vision and language, which aims to reduce the semantic discrepancy between images texts. Most of existing works rely on refined words objects representation through data-oriented method capture word-object cooccurrence. Such approaches are prone ignore asymmetric action relation texts, that is, text has explicit (i.e., verb phrase) while ima...

The use of image enhancement for the visually impaired was flIst proposed by Peli ~d Peli in 1984. Today, the technology to implement image enhancement techniques in real-time exists. We tested the use of this technology in the reading of scrolled text. The purpose of this study was to determine if this enhancement algorithm would incre.ase impaired observers' ability to read scrolled text. T!l...

In this paper, we propose a Text-Degradation Invariant Auto Encoder (Text-DIAE), self-supervised model designed to tackle two tasks, text recognition (handwritten or scene-text) and document image enhancement. We start by employing transformer-based architecture that incorporates three pretext tasks as learning objectives be optimized during pre-training without the usage of labelled data. Each...

In this paper analysis and comparison of various methods for text detection is carried by using canny edge detection algorithm and MSER based method along with the image enhancement which results in the improved performance in terms of text detection. In addition, we improve current MSERs by developing a contrast enhancement mechanism that enhances region stability of text patterns to remove th...

We introduce Anita: a flexible and intelligent Text Adaptation tool for web content that provides Text Simplification and Text Enhancement modules. Anita’s simplification module features a state-of-the-art system that adapts texts according to the needs of individual users, and its enhancement module allows the user to search for a word’s definitions, synonyms, translations, and visual cues thr...

A speech signal captured by a distant microphone is generally contaminated by background noise, which severely degrades the audible quality and intelligibility of the observed signal. To resolve this issue, speech enhancement has been intensively studied. In this paper, we consider a text-informed speech enhancement, where the enhancement process is guided by the corresponding text information,...

(1) Background: Chinese news text is a popular form of media communication, which can be seen everywhere in China. classification an important direction natural language processing (NLP). How to use high-quality technology help humans efficiently organize and manage the massive amount web urgent problem solved. It noted that existing deep learning methods rely on large-scale tagged corpus for t...

Previous research has established the benefits of image enhancement by spatial filtering for face perception and motion video appreciation among elderly low-vision observers [Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 32, 2337 (1991); J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 1929 (1994)]. It has also been reported that similar enhancement could increase reading speeds by a factor of 2-4 in the same population [cf. Ophthalmol...