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Author Nibal Nayef; Yash Patel; Michal Busta; Pinaki Nath Chowdhury; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Wafa Khlif; Jiri Matas; Umapada Pal; Jean-Christophe Burie; Cheng-lin Liu; Jean-Marc Ogier edit   pdf
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  Title ICDAR2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Multi-lingual Scene Text Detection and Recognition — RRC-MLT-2019 Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1582-1587  
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  Abstract With the growing cosmopolitan culture of modern cities, the need of robust Multi-Lingual scene Text (MLT) detection and recognition systems has never been more immense. With the goal to systematically benchmark and push the state-of-the-art forward, the proposed competition builds on top of the RRC-MLT-2017 with an additional end-to-end task, an additional language in the real images dataset, a large scale multi-lingual synthetic dataset to assist the training, and a baseline End-to-End recognition method. The real dataset consists of 20,000 images containing text from 10 languages. The challenge has 4 tasks covering various aspects of multi-lingual scene text: (a) text detection, (b) cropped word script classification, (c) joint text detection and script classification and (d) end-to-end detection and recognition. In total, the competition received 60 submissions from the research and industrial communities. This paper presents the dataset, the tasks and the findings of the presented RRC-MLT-2019 challenge.  
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ NPB2019 Serial 3341  
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Author Dena Bazazian; Raul Gomez; Anguelos Nicolaou; Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov edit   pdf
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  Title Fast: Facilitated and accurate scene text proposals through fcn guided pruning Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL  
  Volume 119 Issue Pages 112-120  
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  Abstract Class-specific text proposal algorithms can efficiently reduce the search space for possible text object locations in an image. In this paper we combine the Text Proposals algorithm with Fully Convolutional Networks to efficiently reduce the number of proposals while maintaining the same recall level and thus gaining a significant speed up. Our experiments demonstrate that such text proposal approaches yield significantly higher recall rates than state-of-the-art text localization techniques, while also producing better-quality localizations. Our results on the ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition (Challenge 4) and the COCO-text datasets show that, when combined with strong word classifiers, this recall margin leads to state-of-the-art results in end-to-end scene text recognition.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ BGN2019 Serial 3342  
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Author Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gabriel Brea-Martinez; Miquel Valls-Figols edit  url
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  Title The Baix Llobregat (BALL) Demographic Database, between Historical Demography and Computer Vision (nineteenth–twentieth centuries Type Book Chapter
  Year (down) 2019 Publication Nominative Data in Demographic Research in the East and the West: monograph Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 29-61  
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  Abstract The Baix Llobregat (BALL) Demographic Database is an ongoing database project containing individual census data from the Catalan region of Baix Llobregat (Spain) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The BALL Database is built within the project ‘NETWORKS: Technology and citizen innovation for building historical social networks to understand the demographic past’ directed by Alícia Fornés from the Center for Computer Vision and Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora from the Center for Demographic Studies, both at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, funded by the Recercaixa program (2017–2019).
Its webpage is http://dag.cvc.uab.es/xarxes/.The aim of the project is to develop technologies facilitating massive digitalization of demographic sources, and more specifically the padrones (local censuses), in order to reconstruct historical ‘social’ networks employing computer vision technology. Such virtual networks can be created thanks to the linkage of nominative records compiled in the local censuses across time and space. Thus, digitized versions of individual and family lifespans are established, and individuals and families can be located spatially.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ PFL2019 Serial 3351  
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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.
 
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RGF2019 Serial 3352  
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Author Manuel Carbonell; Joan Mas; Mauricio Villegas; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title End-to-End Handwritten Text Detection and Transcription in Full Pages Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5 Issue Pages 29-34  
  Keywords Handwritten Text Recognition; Layout Analysis; Text segmentation; Deep Neural Networks; Multi-task learning  
  Abstract When transcribing handwritten document images, inaccuracies in the text segmentation step often cause errors in the subsequent transcription step. For this reason, some recent methods propose to perform the recognition at paragraph level. But still, errors in the segmentation of paragraphs can affect
the transcription performance. In this work, we propose an end-to-end framework to transcribe full pages. The joint text detection and transcription allows to remove the layout analysis requirement at test time. The experimental results show that our approach can achieve comparable results to models that assume
segmented paragraphs, and suggest that joining the two tasks brings an improvement over doing the two tasks separately.
 
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 601.311; 600.140 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CMV2019 Serial 3353  
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Author Asma Bensalah; Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title Shoot less and Sketch more: An Efficient Sketch Classification via Joining Graph Neural Networks and Few-shot Learning Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 13th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 80-85  
  Keywords Sketch classification; Convolutional Neural Network; Graph Neural Network; Few-shot learning  
  Abstract With the emergence of the touchpad devices and drawing tablets, a new era of sketching started afresh. However, the recognition of sketches is still a tough task due to the variability of the drawing styles. Moreover, in some application scenarios there is few labelled data available for training,
which imposes a limitation for deep learning architectures. In addition, in many cases there is a need to generate models able to adapt to new classes. In order to cope with these limitations, we propose a method based on few-shot learning and graph neural networks for classifying sketches aiming for an efficient neural model. We test our approach with several databases of
sketches, showing promising results.
 
  Address Sydney; Australia; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 601.302; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BRF2019 Serial 3354  
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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.
 
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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 Ekta Vats; Anders Hast; Alicia Fornes edit   pdf
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  Title Training-Free and Segmentation-Free Word Spotting using Feature Matching and Query Expansion Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1294-1299  
  Keywords Word spotting; Segmentation-free; Trainingfree; Query expansion; Feature matching  
  Abstract Historical handwritten text recognition is an interesting yet challenging problem. In recent times, deep learning based methods have achieved significant performance in handwritten text recognition. However, handwriting recognition using deep learning needs training data, and often, text must be previously segmented into lines (or even words). These limitations constrain the application of HTR techniques in document collections, because training data or segmented words are not always available. Therefore, this paper proposes a training-free and segmentation-free word spotting approach that can be applied in unconstrained scenarios. The proposed word spotting framework is based on document query word expansion and relaxed feature matching algorithm, which can easily be parallelised. Since handwritten words posses distinct shape and characteristics, this work uses a combination of different keypoint detectors
and Fourier-based descriptors to obtain a sufficient degree of relaxed matching. The effectiveness of the proposed method is empirically evaluated on well-known benchmark datasets using standard evaluation measures. The use of informative features along with query expansion significantly contributed in efficient performance of the proposed method.
 
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Author Mohammed Al Rawi; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Compact and Efficient Multitask Learning in Vision, Language and Speech Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2019 Publication IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2933-2942  
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  Abstract Across-domain multitask learning is a challenging area of computer vision and machine learning due to the intra-similarities among class distributions. Addressing this problem to cope with the human cognition system by considering inter and intra-class categorization and recognition complicates the problem even further. We propose in this work an effective holistic and hierarchical learning by using a text embedding layer on top of a deep learning model. We also propose a novel sensory discriminator approach to resolve the collisions between different tasks and domains. We then train the model concurrently on textual sentiment analysis, speech recognition, image classification, action recognition from video, and handwriting word spotting of two different scripts (Arabic and English). The model we propose successfully learned different tasks across multiple domains.  
  Address Seul; Korea; October 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaV2019 Serial 3365  
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo edit  isbn
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  Title Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Handwritten Documents Type Book Whole
  Year (down) 2019 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract In this thesis we explore information Extraction from totally or partially handwritten documents. Basically we are dealing with two different application scenarios. The first scenario are modern highly structured documents like forms. In this kind of documents, the semantic information is encoded in different fields with a pre-defined location in the document, therefore, information extraction becomes roughly equivalent to transcription. The second application scenario are loosely structured totally handwritten documents, besides transcribing them, we need to assign a semantic label, from a set of known values to the handwritten words.
In both scenarios, transcription is an important part of the information extraction. For that reason in this thesis we present two methods based on Neural Networks, to transcribe handwritten text.In order to tackle the challenge of loosely structured documents, we have produced a benchmark, consisting of a dataset, a defined set of tasks and a metric, that was presented to the community as an international competition. Also, we propose different models based on Convolutional and Recurrent neural networks that are able to transcribe and assign different semantic labels to each handwritten words, that is, able to perform Information Extraction.
 
  Address July 2019  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Alicia Fornes;Josep Llados  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-948531-7-3 Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Tol2019 Serial 3389  
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