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Author Hector Laria Mantecon; Yaxing Wang; Joost Van de Weijer; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Transferring Unconditional to Conditional GANs With Hyper-Modulation Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract GANs have matured in recent years and are able to generate high-resolution, realistic images. However, the computational resources and the data required for the training of high-quality GANs are enormous, and the study of transfer learning of these models is therefore an urgent topic. Many of the available high-quality pretrained GANs are unconditional (like StyleGAN). For many applications, however, conditional GANs are preferable, because they provide more control over the generation process, despite often suffering more training difficulties. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on transferring from high-quality pretrained unconditional GANs to conditional GANs. This requires architectural adaptation of the pretrained GAN to perform the conditioning. To this end, we propose hyper-modulated generative networks that allow for shared and complementary supervision. To prevent the additional weights of the hypernetwork to overfit, with subsequent mode collapse on small target domains, we introduce a self-initialization procedure that does not require any real data to initialize the hypernetwork parameters. To further improve the sample efficiency of the transfer, we apply contrastive learning in the discriminator, which effectively works on very limited batch sizes. In extensive experiments, we validate the efficiency of the hypernetworks, self-initialization and contrastive loss for knowledge transfer on standard benchmarks.
Address New Orleans; USA; June 2022
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Notes LAMP; 600.147; 602.200 Approved no
Call Number LWW2022a Serial 3785
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Author Adria Molina; Lluis Gomez; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados
Title A Generic Image Retrieval Method for Date Estimation of Historical Document Collections Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Document Analysis Systems.15th IAPR International Workshop, (DAS2022) Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13237 Issue Pages 583–597
Keywords Date estimation; Document retrieval; Image retrieval; Ranking loss; Smooth-nDCG
Abstract Date estimation of historical document images is a challenging problem, with several contributions in the literature that lack of the ability to generalize from one dataset to others. This paper presents a robust date estimation system based in a retrieval approach that generalizes well in front of heterogeneous collections. We use a ranking loss function named smooth-nDCG to train a Convolutional Neural Network that learns an ordination of documents for each problem. One of the main usages of the presented approach is as a tool for historical contextual retrieval. It means that scholars could perform comparative analysis of historical images from big datasets in terms of the period where they were produced. We provide experimental evaluation on different types of documents from real datasets of manuscript and newspaper images.
Address La Rochelle, France; May 22–25, 2022
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Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MGR2022 Serial 3694
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Author Josep Brugues Pujolras; Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title A Multilingual Approach to Scene Text Visual Question Answering Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Document Analysis Systems.15th IAPR International Workshop, (DAS2022) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 65-79
Keywords Scene text; Visual question answering; Multilingual word embeddings; Vision and language; Deep learning
Abstract Scene Text Visual Question Answering (ST-VQA) has recently emerged as a hot research topic in Computer Vision. Current ST-VQA models have a big potential for many types of applications but lack the ability to perform well on more than one language at a time due to the lack of multilingual data, as well as the use of monolingual word embeddings for training. In this work, we explore the possibility to obtain bilingual and multilingual VQA models. In that regard, we use an already established VQA model that uses monolingual word embeddings as part of its pipeline and substitute them by FastText and BPEmb multilingual word embeddings that have been aligned to English. Our experiments demonstrate that it is possible to obtain bilingual and multilingual VQA models with a minimal loss in performance in languages not used during training, as well as a multilingual model trained in multiple languages that match the performance of the respective monolingual baselines.
Address La Rochelle, France; May 22–25, 2022
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Notes DAG; 611.004; 600.155; 601.002 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGK2022b Serial 3695
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Author Sergi Garcia Bordils; George Tom; Sangeeth Reddy; Minesh Mathew; Marçal Rusiñol; C.V. Jawahar; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title Read While You Drive-Multilingual Text Tracking on the Road Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 15th IAPR International workshop on document analysis systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13237 Issue Pages 756–770
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Abstract Visual data obtained during driving scenarios usually contain large amounts of text that conveys semantic information necessary to analyse the urban environment and is integral to the traffic control plan. Yet, research on autonomous driving or driver assistance systems typically ignores this information. To advance research in this direction, we present RoadText-3K, a large driving video dataset with fully annotated text. RoadText-3K is three times bigger than its predecessor and contains data from varied geographical locations, unconstrained driving conditions and multiple languages and scripts. We offer a comprehensive analysis of tracking by detection and detection by tracking methods exploring the limits of state-of-the-art text detection. Finally, we propose a new end-to-end trainable tracking model that yields state-of-the-art results on this challenging dataset. Our experiments demonstrate the complexity and variability of RoadText-3K and establish a new, realistic benchmark for scene text tracking in the wild.
Address La Rochelle; France; May 2022
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-031-06554-5 Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.155; 611.022; 611.004 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GTR2022 Serial 3783
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Author Ali Furkan Biten; Ruben Tito; Lluis Gomez; Ernest Valveny; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title OCR-IDL: OCR Annotations for Industry Document Library Dataset Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication ECCV Workshop on Text in Everything Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Pretraining has proven successful in Document Intelligence tasks where deluge of documents are used to pretrain the models only later to be finetuned on downstream tasks. One of the problems of the pretraining approaches is the inconsistent usage of pretraining data with different OCR engines leading to incomparable results between models. In other words, it is not obvious whether the performance gain is coming from diverse usage of amount of data and distinct OCR engines or from the proposed models. To remedy the problem, we make public the OCR annotations for IDL documents using commercial OCR engine given their superior performance over open source OCR models. The contributed dataset (OCR-IDL) has an estimated monetary value over 20K US$. It is our hope that OCR-IDL can be a starting point for future works on Document Intelligence. All of our data and its collection process with the annotations can be found in this https URL.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ BTG2022 Serial 3817
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Author Andrea Gemelli; Sanket Biswas; Enrico Civitelli; Josep Llados; Simone Marinai
Title Doc2Graph: A Task Agnostic Document Understanding Framework Based on Graph Neural Networks Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 17th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13804 Issue Pages 329–344
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Abstract Geometric Deep Learning has recently attracted significant interest in a wide range of machine learning fields, including document analysis. The application of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has become crucial in various document-related tasks since they can unravel important structural patterns, fundamental in key information extraction processes. Previous works in the literature propose task-driven models and do not take into account the full power of graphs. We propose Doc2Graph, a task-agnostic document understanding framework based on a GNN model, to solve different tasks given different types of documents. We evaluated our approach on two challenging datasets for key information extraction in form understanding, invoice layout analysis and table detection.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-031-25068-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (up) ECCV-TiE
Notes DAG; 600.162; 600.140; 110.312 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GBC2022 Serial 3795
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Author Emanuele Vivoli; Ali Furkan Biten; Andres Mafla; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Lluis Gomez
Title MUST-VQA: MUltilingual Scene-text VQA Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Proceedings European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13804 Issue Pages 345–358
Keywords Visual question answering; Scene text; Translation robustness; Multilingual models; Zero-shot transfer; Power of language models
Abstract In this paper, we present a framework for Multilingual Scene Text Visual Question Answering that deals with new languages in a zero-shot fashion. Specifically, we consider the task of Scene Text Visual Question Answering (STVQA) in which the question can be asked in different languages and it is not necessarily aligned to the scene text language. Thus, we first introduce a natural step towards a more generalized version of STVQA: MUST-VQA. Accounting for this, we discuss two evaluation scenarios in the constrained setting, namely IID and zero-shot and we demonstrate that the models can perform on a par on a zero-shot setting. We further provide extensive experimentation and show the effectiveness of adapting multilingual language models into STVQA tasks.
Address Tel-Aviv; Israel; October 2022
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Notes DAG; 302.105; 600.155; 611.002 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VBM2022 Serial 3770
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Author Sergi Garcia Bordils; Andres Mafla; Ali Furkan Biten; Oren Nuriel; Aviad Aberdam; Shai Mazor; Ron Litman; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title Out-of-Vocabulary Challenge Report Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Proceedings European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13804 Issue Pages 359–375
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Abstract This paper presents final results of the Out-Of-Vocabulary 2022 (OOV) challenge. The OOV contest introduces an important aspect that is not commonly studied by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models, namely, the recognition of unseen scene text instances at training time. The competition compiles a collection of public scene text datasets comprising of 326,385 images with 4,864,405 scene text instances, thus covering a wide range of data distributions. A new and independent validation and test set is formed with scene text instances that are out of vocabulary at training time. The competition was structured in two tasks, end-to-end and cropped scene text recognition respectively. A thorough analysis of results from baselines and different participants is presented. Interestingly, current state-of-the-art models show a significant performance gap under the newly studied setting. We conclude that the OOV dataset proposed in this challenge will be an essential area to be explored in order to develop scene text models that achieve more robust and generalized predictions.
Address Tel-Aviv; Israel; October 2022
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Notes DAG; 600.155; 302.105; 611.002 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GMB2022 Serial 3771
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Author Giacomo Magnifico; Beata Megyesi; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Jialuo Chen; Alicia Fornes
Title Lost in Transcription of Graphic Signs in Ciphers Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2022) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 153-158
Keywords transcription of ciphers; hand-written text recognition of symbols; graphic signs
Abstract Hand-written Text Recognition techniques with the aim to automatically identify and transcribe hand-written text have been applied to historical sources including ciphers. In this paper, we compare the performance of two machine learning architectures, an unsupervised method based on clustering and a deep learning method with few-shot learning. Both models are tested on seen and unseen data from historical ciphers with different symbol sets consisting of various types of graphic signs. We compare the models and highlight their differences in performance, with their advantages and shortcomings.
Address Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 20-22, 2022
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Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.162; 602.230; 600.140 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MBS2022 Serial 3731
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Author Nil Ballus; Bhalaji Nagarajan; Petia Radeva
Title Opt-SSL: An Enhanced Self-Supervised Framework for Food Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 10th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13256 Issue Pages
Keywords Self-supervised; Contrastive learning; Food recognition
Abstract Self-supervised Learning has been showing upbeat performance in several computer vision tasks. The popular contrastive methods make use of a Siamese architecture with different loss functions. In this work, we go deeper into two very recent state of the art frameworks, namely, SimSiam and Barlow Twins. Inspired by them, we propose a new self-supervised learning method we call Opt-SSL that combines both image and feature contrasting. We validate the proposed method on the food recognition task, showing that our proposed framework enables the self-learning networks to learn better visual representations.
Address Aveiro; Portugal; May 2022
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Notes MILAB; no menciona Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BNR2022 Serial 3782
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Author Saiping Zhang; Luis Herranz; Marta Mrak; Marc Gorriz Blanch; Shuai Wan; Fuzheng Yang
Title DCNGAN: A Deformable Convolution-Based GAN with QP Adaptation for Perceptual Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 47th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a deformable convolution-based generative adversarial network (DCNGAN) for perceptual quality enhancement of compressed videos. DCNGAN is also adaptive to the quantization parameters (QPs). Compared with optical flows, deformable convolutions are more effective and efficient to align frames. Deformable convolutions can operate on multiple frames, thus leveraging more temporal information, which is beneficial for enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed videos. Instead of aligning frames in a pairwise manner, the deformable convolution can process multiple frames simultaneously, which leads to lower computational complexity. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DCNGAN outperforms other state-of-the-art compressed video quality enhancement algorithms.
Address Virtual; May 2022
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Notes MACO; 600.161; 601.379 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ZHM2022a Serial 3765
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Author Guillem Martinez; Maya Aghaei; Martin Dijkstra; Bhalaji Nagarajan; Femke Jaarsma; Jaap van de Loosdrecht; Petia Radeva; Klaas Dijkstra
Title Hyper-Spectral Imaging for Overlapping Plastic Flakes Segmentation Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 47th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Hyper-spectral imaging; plastic sorting; multi-label segmentation; bitfield encoding
Abstract In this paper, we propose a deformable convolution-based generative adversarial network (DCNGAN) for perceptual quality enhancement of compressed videos. DCNGAN is also adaptive to the quantization parameters (QPs). Compared with optical flows, deformable convolutions are more effective and efficient to align frames. Deformable convolutions can operate on multiple frames, thus leveraging more temporal information, which is beneficial for enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed videos. Instead of aligning frames in a pairwise manner, the deformable convolution can process multiple frames simultaneously, which leads to lower computational complexity. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DCNGAN outperforms other state-of-the-art compressed video quality enhancement algorithms.
Address Singapore; May 2022
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Notes MILAB; no proj Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MAD2022 Serial 3767
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Author Giuseppe De Gregorio; Sanket Biswas; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Asma Bensalah; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes; Angelo Marcelli
Title A Few Shot Multi-representation Approach for N-Gram Spotting in Historical Manuscripts Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2022) Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13639 Issue Pages 3-12
Keywords N-gram spotting; Few-shot learning; Multimodal understanding; Historical handwritten collections
Abstract Despite recent advances in automatic text recognition, the performance remains moderate when it comes to historical manuscripts. This is mainly because of the scarcity of available labelled data to train the data-hungry Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models. The Keyword Spotting System (KWS) provides a valid alternative to HTR due to the reduction in error rate, but it is usually limited to a closed reference vocabulary. In this paper, we propose a few-shot learning paradigm for spotting sequences of a few characters (N-gram) that requires a small amount of labelled training data. We exhibit that recognition of important n-grams could reduce the system’s dependency on vocabulary. In this case, an out-of-vocabulary (OOV) word in an input handwritten line image could be a sequence of n-grams that belong to the lexicon. An extensive experimental evaluation of our proposed multi-representation approach was carried out on a subset of Bentham’s historical manuscript collections to obtain some really promising results in this direction.
Address December 04 – 07, 2022; Hyderabad, India
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Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.162; 602.230; 600.140 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GBS2022 Serial 3733
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Author Arnau Baro; Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes
Title Musigraph: Optical Music Recognition Through Object Detection and Graph Neural Network Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2022) Abbreviated Journal
Volume 13639 Issue Pages 171-184
Keywords Object detection; Optical music recognition; Graph neural network
Abstract During the last decades, the performance of optical music recognition has been increasingly improving. However, and despite the 2-dimensional nature of music notation (e.g. notes have rhythm and pitch), most works treat musical scores as a sequence of symbols in one dimension, which make their recognition still a challenge. Thus, in this work we explore the use of graph neural networks for musical score recognition. First, because graphs are suited for n-dimensional representations, and second, because the combination of graphs with deep learning has shown a great performance in similar applications. Our methodology consists of: First, we will detect each isolated/atomic symbols (those that can not be decomposed in more graphical primitives) and the primitives that form a musical symbol. Then, we will build the graph taking as root node the notehead and as leaves those primitives or symbols that modify the note’s rhythm (stem, beam, flag) or pitch (flat, sharp, natural). Finally, the graph is translated into a human-readable character sequence for a final transcription and evaluation. Our method has been tested on more than five thousand measures, showing promising results.
Address December 04 – 07, 2022; Hyderabad, India
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Notes DAG; 600.162; 600.140; 602.230 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BRF2022b Serial 3740
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Author Utkarsh Porwal; Alicia Fornes; Faisal Shafait (eds)
Title Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. 18th International Conference, ICFHR 2022 Type Book Whole
Year 2022 Publication Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. Abbreviated Journal
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Address ICFHR 2022, Hyderabad, India, December 4–7, 2022
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor Utkarsh Porwal; Alicia Fornes; Faisal Shafait
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-031-21648-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (up) ICFHR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PFS2022 Serial 3809
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