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Author Pau Torras; Arnau Baro; Lei Kang; Alicia Fornes edit  openurl
  Title On the Integration of Language Models into Sequence to Sequence Architectures for Handwritten Music Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2021 Publication International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 690-696  
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  Abstract Despite the latest advances in Deep Learning, the recognition of handwritten music scores is still a challenging endeavour. Even though the recent Sequence to Sequence(Seq2Seq) architectures have demonstrated its capacity to reliably recognise handwritten text, their performance is still far from satisfactory when applied to historical handwritten scores. Indeed, the ambiguous nature of handwriting, the non-standard musical notation employed by composers of the time and the decaying state of old paper make these scores remarkably difficult to read, sometimes even by trained humans. Thus, in this work we explore the incorporation of language models into a Seq2Seq-based architecture to try to improve transcriptions where the aforementioned unclear writing produces statistically unsound mistakes, which as far as we know, has never been attempted for this field of research on this architecture. After studying various Language Model integration techniques, the experimental evaluation on historical handwritten music scores shows a significant improvement over the state of the art, showing that this is a promising research direction for dealing with such difficult manuscripts.  
  Address Virtual; November 2021  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TBK2021 Serial 3616  
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Author Adarsh Tiwari; Sanket Biswas; Josep Llados edit  url
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  Title Can Pre-trained Language Models Help in Understanding Handwritten Symbols? Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14193 Issue Pages 199–211  
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  Abstract The emergence of transformer models like BERT, GPT-2, GPT-3, RoBERTa, T5 for natural language understanding tasks has opened the floodgates towards solving a wide array of machine learning tasks in other modalities like images, audio, music, sketches and so on. These language models are domain-agnostic and as a result could be applied to 1-D sequences of any kind. However, the key challenge lies in bridging the modality gap so that they could generate strong features beneficial for out-of-domain tasks. This work focuses on leveraging the power of such pre-trained language models and discusses the challenges in predicting challenging handwritten symbols and alphabets.  
  Address San Jose; CA; USA; August 2023  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TBL2023 Serial 3908  
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo; Manuel Carbonell; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados edit  url
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  Title Information Extraction from Historical Handwritten Document Images with a Context-aware Neural Model Type Journal Article
  Year 2019 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR  
  Volume 86 Issue Pages 27-36  
  Keywords Document image analysis; Handwritten documents; Named entity recognition; Deep neural networks  
  Abstract Many historical manuscripts that hold trustworthy memories of the past societies contain information organized in a structured layout (e.g. census, birth or marriage records). The precious information stored in these documents cannot be effectively used nor accessed without costly annotation efforts. The transcription driven by the semantic categories of words is crucial for the subsequent access. In this paper we describe an approach to extract information from structured historical handwritten text images and build a knowledge representation for the extraction of meaning out of historical data. The method extracts information, such as named entities, without the need of an intermediate transcription step, thanks to the incorporation of context information through language models. Our system has two variants, the first one is based on bigrams, whereas the second one is based on recurrent neural networks. Concretely, our second architecture integrates a Convolutional Neural Network to model visual information from word images together with a Bidirecitonal Long Short Term Memory network to model the relation among the words. This integrated sequential approach is able to extract more information than just the semantic category (e.g. a semantic category can be associated to a person in a record). Our system is generic, it deals with out-of-vocabulary words by design, and it can be applied to structured handwritten texts from different domains. The method has been validated with the ICDAR IEHHR competition protocol, outperforming the existing approaches.  
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  Notes DAG; 600.097; 601.311; 603.057; 600.084; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TCF2019 Serial 3166  
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo; Jordi Cucurull; Jordi Puiggali; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados edit  url
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  Title Document Analysis Techniques for Automatic Electoral Document Processing: A Survey Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication E-Voting and Identity, Proceedings of 5th international conference, VoteID 2015 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 139-141  
  Keywords Document image analysis; Computer vision; Paper ballots; Paper based elections; Optical scan; Tally  
  Abstract In this paper, we will discuss the most common challenges in electoral document processing and study the different solutions from the document analysis community that can be applied in each case. We will cover Optical Mark Recognition techniques to detect voter selections in the Australian Ballot, handwritten number recognition for preferential elections and handwriting recognition for write-in areas. We will also propose some particular adjustments that can be made to those general techniques in the specific context of electoral documents.  
  Address Bern; Switzerland; September 2015  
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  Notes DAG; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TCP2015 Serial 2641  
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo; Sounak Dey; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title Handwriting Recognition by Attribute embedding and Recurrent Neural Networks Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1038-1043  
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  Abstract Handwriting recognition consists in obtaining the transcription of a text image. Recent word spotting methods based on attribute embedding have shown good performance when recognizing words. However, they are holistic methods in the sense that they recognize the word as a whole (i.e. they find the closest word in the lexicon to the word image). Consequently,
these kinds of approaches are not able to deal with out of vocabulary words, which are common in historical manuscripts. Also, they cannot be extended to recognize text lines. In order to address these issues, in this paper we propose a handwriting recognition method that adapts the attribute embedding to sequence learning. Concretely, the method learns the attribute embedding of patches of word images with a convolutional neural network. Then, these embeddings are presented as a sequence to a recurrent neural network that produces the transcription. We obtain promising results even without the use of any kind of dictionary or language model
 
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  Notes DAG; 600.097; 601.225; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TDF2017 Serial 3055  
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Author Ruben Tito; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Document Collection Visual Question Answering Type Conference Article
  Year 2021 Publication 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12822 Issue Pages 778-792  
  Keywords Document collection; Visual Question Answering  
  Abstract Current tasks and methods in Document Understanding aims to process documents as single elements. However, documents are usually organized in collections (historical records, purchase invoices), that provide context useful for their interpretation. To address this problem, we introduce Document Collection Visual Question Answering (DocCVQA) a new dataset and related task, where questions are posed over a whole collection of document images and the goal is not only to provide the answer to the given question, but also to retrieve the set of documents that contain the information needed to infer the answer. Along with the dataset we propose a new evaluation metric and baselines which provide further insights to the new dataset and task.  
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  Notes DAG; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TKV2021 Serial 3622  
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Author Ruben Tito; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Hierarchical multimodal transformers for Multi-Page DocVQA Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR  
  Volume 144 Issue Pages 109834  
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  Abstract Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) refers to the task of answering questions from document images. Existing work on DocVQA only considers single-page documents. However, in real scenarios documents are mostly composed of multiple pages that should be processed altogether. In this work we extend DocVQA to the multi-page scenario. For that, we first create a new dataset, MP-DocVQA, where questions are posed over multi-page documents instead of single pages. Second, we propose a new hierarchical method, Hi-VT5, based on the T5 architecture, that overcomes the limitations of current methods to process long multi-page documents. The proposed method is based on a hierarchical transformer architecture where the encoder summarizes the most relevant information of every page and then, the decoder takes this summarized information to generate the final answer. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate that our method is able, in a single stage, to answer the questions and provide the page that contains the relevant information to find the answer, which can be used as a kind of explainability measure.  
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  Notes DAG; 600.155; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TKV2023 Serial 3825  
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Author Ruben Tito; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Hierarchical multimodal transformers for Multipage DocVQA Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR  
  Volume 144 Issue 109834 Pages  
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  Abstract Existing work on DocVQA only considers single-page documents. However, in real applications documents are mostly composed of multiple pages that should be processed altogether. In this work, we propose a new multimodal hierarchical method Hi-VT5, that overcomes the limitations of current methods to process long multipage documents. In contrast to previous hierarchical methods that focus on different semantic granularity (He et al., 2021) or different subtasks (Zhou et al., 2022) used in image classification. Our method is a hierarchical transformer architecture where the encoder learns to summarize the most relevant information of every page and then, the decoder uses this summarized representation to generate the final answer, following a bottom-up approach. Moreover, due to the lack of multipage DocVQA datasets, we also introduce MP-DocVQA, an extension of SP-DocVQA where questions are posed over multipage documents instead of single pages. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate that Hi-VT5 is able, in a single stage, to answer the questions and provide the page that contains the answer, which can be used as a kind of explainability measure.  
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Author George Tom; Minesh Mathew; Sergi Garcia Bordils; Dimosthenis Karatzas; CV Jawahar edit  url
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  Title ICDAR 2023 Competition on RoadText Video Text Detection, Tracking and Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14188 Issue Pages 577–586  
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  Abstract In this report, we present the final results of the ICDAR 2023 Competition on RoadText Video Text Detection, Tracking and Recognition. The RoadText challenge is based on the RoadText-1K dataset and aims to assess and enhance current methods for scene text detection, recognition, and tracking in videos. The RoadText-1K dataset contains 1000 dash cam videos with annotations for text bounding boxes and transcriptions in every frame. The competition features an end-to-end task, requiring systems to accurately detect, track, and recognize text in dash cam videos. The paper presents a comprehensive review of the submitted methods along with a detailed analysis of the results obtained by the methods. The analysis provides valuable insights into the current capabilities and limitations of video text detection, tracking, and recognition systems for dashcam videos.  
  Address San Jose; CA; USA; August 2023  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TMG2023 Serial 3905  
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Author George Tom; Minesh Mathew; Sergi Garcia Bordils; Dimosthenis Karatzas; CV Jawahar edit  url
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  Title Reading Between the Lanes: Text VideoQA on the Road Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14192 Issue Pages 137–154  
  Keywords VideoQA; scene text; driving videos  
  Abstract Text and signs around roads provide crucial information for drivers, vital for safe navigation and situational awareness. Scene text recognition in motion is a challenging problem, while textual cues typically appear for a short time span, and early detection at a distance is necessary. Systems that exploit such information to assist the driver should not only extract and incorporate visual and textual cues from the video stream but also reason over time. To address this issue, we introduce RoadTextVQA, a new dataset for the task of video question answering (VideoQA) in the context of driver assistance. RoadTextVQA consists of 3, 222 driving videos collected from multiple countries, annotated with 10, 500 questions, all based on text or road signs present in the driving videos. We assess the performance of state-of-the-art video question answering models on our RoadTextVQA dataset, highlighting the significant potential for improvement in this domain and the usefulness of the dataset in advancing research on in-vehicle support systems and text-aware multimodal question answering. The dataset is available at http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/roadtextvqa.  
  Address San Jose; CA; USA; August 2023  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ TMG2023 Serial 3906  
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