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Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: Modi to Devanagari Transliteration Dataset
This dataset supports research in the transliteration of Modi script—an ancient Indian script historically used in Maharashtra—into Devanagari, the script currently used for Marathi and several other Indian languages.
The dataset was introduced in the following paper:
Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: A Novel Dataset and A VLM Framework for Transliteration of Modi Script to Devanagari
Harshal Kausadikar, Tanvi Kale, Onkar Susladkar, Sparsh Mittal
Accepted at ICDAR 2025
arXiv:2503.13060v2
Dataset Features
- Modi script image patches
- Aligned Devanagari transliterations
- Covers a diverse range of historical Modi handwriting styles
- Suitable for OCR, script transliteration, vision-language modeling, and low-resource script research
Usage
This dataset is ideal for:
- Handwritten script recognition and transliteration
- Vision-language model (VLM) training for historical scripts
- Document digitization and cultural heritage preservation
Citation
If you use this dataset in your research or publications, please cite the following paper:
@article{kausadikar2025historic,
title={Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: A Novel Dataset and A VLM Framework for Transliteration of Modi Script to Devanagari},
author={Kausadikar, Harshal and Kale, Tanvi and Susladkar, Onkar and Mittal, Sparsh},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.13060},
year={2025}
}