MFH: Marrying Frequency Domain with Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition

Huanxin Yang, Qiwen Wang

Abstract: Handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) suffers from complex formula structures and character layouts in sequence prediction. In this paper, we incorporate frequency domain analysis into HMER and propose a method that marries frequency domain with HMER (MFH), leveraging the discrete cosine transform (DCT). We emphasize the structural analysis assistance of frequency information for recognizing mathematical formulas. When implemented on various baseline models, our network exhibits a consistent performance enhancement, demonstrating the efficacy of frequency domain information. Experiments show that our MFH-CoMER achieves noteworthy accuracy rates of 61.66%/62.07%/63.72% on the CROHME 2014/2016/2019 test sets. The source code is available at https://github.com/Hryxyhe/MFH.