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Author Pau Riba; Anjan Dutta; Lutz Goldmann; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title Table Detection in Invoice Documents by Graph Neural Networks Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 122-127  
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  Abstract Tabular structures in documents offer a complementary dimension to the raw textual data, representing logical or quantitative relationships among pieces of information. In digital mail room applications, where a large amount of
administrative documents must be processed with reasonable accuracy, the detection and interpretation of tables is crucial. Table recognition has gained interest in document image analysis, in particular in unconstrained formats (absence of rule lines, unknown information of rows and columns). In this work, we propose a graph-based approach for detecting tables in document images. Instead of using the raw content (recognized text), we make use of the location, context and content type, thus it is purely a structure perception approach, not dependent on the language and the quality of the text
reading. Our framework makes use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in order to describe the local repetitive structural information of tables in invoice documents. Our proposed model has been experimentally validated in two invoice datasets and achieved encouraging results. Additionally, due to the scarcity
of benchmark datasets for this task, we have contributed to the community a novel dataset derived from the RVL-CDIP invoice data. It will be publicly released to facilitate future research.
 
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 601.302; 602.167; 600.121; 600.141 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RDG2019 Serial 3355  
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Author Raul Gomez; Ali Furkan Biten; Lluis Gomez; Jaume Gibert; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title Selective Style Transfer for Text Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 805-812  
  Keywords transfer; text style transfer; data augmentation; scene text detection  
  Abstract This paper explores the possibilities of image style transfer applied to text maintaining the original transcriptions. Results on different text domains (scene text, machine printed text and handwritten text) and cross-modal results demonstrate that this is feasible, and open different research lines. Furthermore, two architectures for selective style transfer, which means
transferring style to only desired image pixels, are proposed. Finally, scene text selective style transfer is evaluated as a data augmentation technique to expand scene text detection datasets, resulting in a boost of text detectors performance. Our implementation of the described models is publicly available.
 
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.129; 600.135; 601.338; 601.310; 600.121 Approved no  
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Author Raul Gomez; Lluis Gomez; Jaume Gibert; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title Self-Supervised Learning from Web Data for Multimodal Retrieval Type Book Chapter
  Year (down) 2019 Publication Multi-Modal Scene Understanding Book Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 279-306  
  Keywords self-supervised learning; webly supervised learning; text embeddings; multimodal retrieval; multimodal embedding  
  Abstract Self-Supervised learning from multimodal image and text data allows deep neural networks to learn powerful features with no need of human annotated data. Web and Social Media platforms provide a virtually unlimited amount of this multimodal data. In this work we propose to exploit this free available data to learn a multimodal image and text embedding, aiming to leverage the semantic knowledge learnt in the text domain and transfer it to a visual model for semantic image retrieval. We demonstrate that the proposed pipeline can learn from images with associated text without supervision and analyze the semantic structure of the learnt joint image and text embeddingspace. Weperformathoroughanalysisandperformancecomparisonoffivedifferentstateof the art text embeddings in three different benchmarks. We show that the embeddings learnt with Web and Social Media data have competitive performances over supervised methods in the text basedimageretrievaltask,andweclearlyoutperformstateoftheartintheMIRFlickrdatasetwhen training in the target data. Further, we demonstrate how semantic multimodal image retrieval can be performed using the learnt embeddings, going beyond classical instance-level retrieval problems. Finally, we present a new dataset, InstaCities1M, composed by Instagram images and their associated texts that can be used for fair comparison of image-text embeddings.  
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Author Rui Zhang; Yongsheng Zhou; Qianyi Jiang; Qi Song; Nan Li; Kai Zhou; Lei Wang; Dong Wang; Minghui Liao; Mingkun Yang; Xiang Bai; Baoguang Shi; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Shijian Lu; CV Jawahar edit   pdf
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  Title ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Reading Chinese Text on Signboard Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1577-1581  
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  Abstract Chinese scene text reading is one of the most challenging problems in computer vision and has attracted great interest. Different from English text, Chinese has more than 6000 commonly used characters and Chinesecharacters can be arranged in various layouts with numerous fonts. The Chinese signboards in street view are a good choice for Chinese scene text images since they have different backgrounds, fonts and layouts. We organized a competition called ICDAR2019-ReCTS, which mainly focuses on reading Chinese text on signboard. This report presents the final results of the competition. A large-scale dataset of 25,000 annotated signboard images, in which all the text lines and characters are annotated with locations and transcriptions, were released. Four tasks, namely character recognition, text line recognition, text line detection and end-to-end recognition were set up. Besides, considering the Chinese text ambiguity issue, we proposed a multi ground truth (multi-GT) evaluation method to make evaluation fairer. The competition started on March 1, 2019 and ended on April 30, 2019. 262 submissions from 46 teams are received. Most of the participants come from universities, research institutes, and tech companies in China. There are also some participants from the United States, Australia, Singapore, and Korea. 21 teams submit results for Task 1, 23 teams submit results for Task 2, 24 teams submit results for Task 3, and 13 teams submit results for Task 4.  
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.129; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ LZZ2019 Serial 3335  
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Author Sounak Dey; Anguelos Nicolaou; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal edit   pdf
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  Title Evaluation of the Effect of Improper Segmentation on Word Spotting Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR  
  Volume 22 Issue Pages 361-374  
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  Abstract Word spotting is an important recognition task in large-scale retrieval of document collections. In most of the cases, methods are developed and evaluated assuming perfect word segmentation. In this paper, we propose an experimental framework to quantify the goodness that word segmentation has on the performance achieved by word spotting methods in identical unbiased conditions. The framework consists of generating systematic distortions on segmentation and retrieving the original queries from the distorted dataset. We have tested our framework on several established and state-of-the-art methods using George Washington and Barcelona Marriage Datasets. The experiments done allow for an estimate of the end-to-end performance of word spotting methods.  
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  Notes DAG; 600.097; 600.084; 600.121; 600.140; 600.129 Approved no  
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Author Sounak Dey; Pau Riba; Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Yi-Zhe Song edit   pdf
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  Title Doodle to Search: Practical Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2179-2188  
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  Abstract In this paper, we investigate the problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR), where human sketches are used as queries to conduct retrieval of photos from unseen categories. We importantly advance prior arts by proposing a novel ZS-SBIR scenario that represents a firm step forward in its practical application. The new setting uniquely recognizes two important yet often neglected challenges of practical ZS-SBIR, (i) the large domain gap between amateur sketch and photo, and (ii) the necessity for moving towards large-scale retrieval. We first contribute to the community a novel ZS-SBIR dataset, QuickDraw-Extended, that consists of 330,000 sketches and 204,000 photos spanning across 110 categories. Highly abstract amateur human sketches are purposefully sourced to maximize the domain gap, instead of ones included in existing datasets that can often be semi-photorealistic. We then formulate a ZS-SBIR framework to jointly model sketches and photos into a common embedding space. A novel strategy to mine the mutual information among domains is specifically engineered to alleviate the domain gap. External semantic knowledge is further embedded to aid semantic transfer. We show that, rather surprisingly, retrieval performance significantly outperforms that of state-of-the-art on existing datasets that can already be achieved using a reduced version of our model. We further demonstrate the superior performance of our full model by comparing with a number of alternatives on the newly proposed dataset. The new dataset, plus all training and testing code of our model, will be publicly released to facilitate future research.  
  Address Long beach; CA; USA; June 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121; 600.097 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DRD2019 Serial 3462  
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Salvatore Tabbone edit  url
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  Title DSD: document sparse-based denoising algorithm Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication Pattern Analysis and Applications Abbreviated Journal PAA  
  Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 177–186  
  Keywords Document denoising; Sparse representations; Sparse dictionary learning; Document degradation models  
  Abstract In this paper, we present a sparse-based denoising algorithm for scanned documents. This method can be applied to any kind of scanned documents with satisfactory results. Unlike other approaches, the proposed approach encodes noise documents through sparse representation and visual dictionary learning techniques without any prior noise model. Moreover, we propose a precision parameter estimator. Experiments on several datasets demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach compared to the state-of-the-art methods on document denoising.  
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Author Veronica Romero; Emilio Granell; Alicia Fornes; Enrique Vidal; Joan Andreu Sanchez edit   pdf
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  Title Information Extraction in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 5th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 66-71  
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  Abstract Handwritten marriage licenses books are characterized by a simple structure of the text in the records with an evolutionary vocabulary, mainly composed of proper names that change along the time. This distinct vocabulary makes automatic transcription and semantic information extraction difficult tasks. Previous works have shown that the use of category-based language models and a Grammatical Inference technique known as MGGI can improve the accuracy of these
tasks. However, the application of the MGGI algorithm requires an a priori knowledge to label the words of the training strings, that is not always easy to obtain. In this paper we study how to automatically obtain the information required by the MGGI algorithm using a technique based on Confusion Networks. Using the resulting language model, full handwritten text recognition and information extraction experiments have been carried out with results supporting the proposed approach.
 
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
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Author Y. Patel; Lluis Gomez; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; C.V. Jawahar edit   pdf
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  Title Self-Supervised Visual Representations for Cross-Modal Retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 182–186  
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  Abstract Cross-modal retrieval methods have been significantly improved in last years with the use of deep neural networks and large-scale annotated datasets such as ImageNet and Places. However, collecting and annotating such datasets requires a tremendous amount of human effort and, besides, their annotations are limited to discrete sets of popular visual classes that may not be representative of the richer semantics found on large-scale cross-modal retrieval datasets. In this paper, we present a self-supervised cross-modal retrieval framework that leverages as training data the correlations between images and text on the entire set of Wikipedia articles. Our method consists in training a CNN to predict: (1) the semantic context of the article in which an image is more probable to appear as an illustration, and (2) the semantic context of its caption. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method is not only capable of learning discriminative visual representations for solving vision tasks like classification, but that the learned representations are better for cross-modal retrieval when compared to supervised pre-training of the network on the ImageNet dataset.  
  Address Otawa; Canada; june 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
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Author Yipeng Sun; Zihan Ni; Chee-Kheng Chng; Yuliang Liu; Canjie Luo; Chun Chet Ng; Junyu Han; Errui Ding; Jingtuo Liu; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Chee Seng Chan; Lianwen Jin edit   pdf
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  Title ICDAR 2019 Competition on Large-Scale Street View Text with Partial Labeling – RRC-LSVT Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1557-1562  
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  Abstract Robust text reading from street view images provides valuable information for various applications. Performance improvement of existing methods in such a challenging scenario heavily relies on the amount of fully annotated training data, which is costly and in-efficient to obtain. To scale up the amount of training data while keeping the labeling procedure cost-effective, this competition introduces a new challenge on Large-scale Street View Text with Partial Labeling (LSVT), providing 50, 000 and 400, 000 images in full and weak annotations, respectively. This competition aims to explore the abilities of state-of-the-art methods to detect and recognize text instances from large-scale street view images, closing the gap between research benchmarks and real applications. During the competition period, a total of 41 teams participated in the two proposed tasks with 132 valid submissions, ie, text detection and end-to-end text spotting. This paper includes dataset descriptions, task definitions, evaluation protocols and results summaries of the ICDAR 2019-LSVT challenge.  
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.129; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SNC2019 Serial 3339  
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