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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Title A Generic Image Retrieval Method for Date Estimation of Historical Document Collections Type Conference Article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 (down) 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Abstract Date estimation of historical document images is a challenging problem, with several contributions in the literature that lack of the ability to generalize from one dataset to others.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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Area Expedition Conference DAS
Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MGR2022 Serial 3694
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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 (down) 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
Area Expedition Conference DAS
Notes DAG; 600.155; 611.022; 611.004 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GTR2022 Serial 3783
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Author Marc Oliu; Sarah Adel Bargal; Stan Sclaroff; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera
Title Multi-varied Cumulative Alignment for Domain Adaptation Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 13232 Issue Pages 324–334
Keywords Domain Adaptation; Computer vision; Neural networks
Abstract Domain Adaptation methods can be classified into two basic families of approaches: non-parametric and parametric. Non-parametric approaches depend on statistical indicators such as feature covariances to minimize the domain shift. Non-parametric approaches tend to be fast to compute and require no additional parameters, but they are unable to leverage probability density functions with complex internal structures. Parametric approaches, on the other hand, use models of the probability distributions as surrogates in minimizing the domain shift, but they require additional trainable parameters to model these distributions. In this work, we propose a new statistical approach to minimizing the domain shift based on stochastically projecting and evaluating the cumulative density function in both domains. As with non-parametric approaches, there are no additional trainable parameters. As with parametric approaches, the internal structure of both domains’ probability distributions is considered, thus leveraging a higher amount of information when reducing the domain shift. Evaluation on standard datasets used for Domain Adaptation shows better performance of the proposed model compared to non-parametric approaches while being competitive with parametric ones. (Code available at: https://github.com/moliusimon/mca).
Address Indonesia; October 2022
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference ICIAP
Notes HuPBA; no menciona Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ OAS2022 Serial 3777
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Author Javad Zolfaghari Bengar; Bogdan Raducanu; Joost Van de Weijer
Title When Deep Learners Change Their Mind: Learning Dynamics for Active Learning Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 19th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 13052 Issue 1 Pages 403-413
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Abstract Active learning aims to select samples to be annotated that yield the largest performance improvement for the learning algorithm. Many methods approach this problem by measuring the informativeness of samples and do this based on the certainty of the network predictions for samples. However, it is well-known that neural networks are overly confident about their prediction and are therefore an untrustworthy source to assess sample informativeness. In this paper, we propose a new informativeness-based active learning method. Our measure is derived from the learning dynamics of a neural network. More precisely we track the label assignment of the unlabeled data pool during the training of the algorithm. We capture the learning dynamics with a metric called label-dispersion, which is low when the network consistently assigns the same label to the sample during the training of the network and high when the assigned label changes frequently. We show that label-dispersion is a promising predictor of the uncertainty of the network, and show on two benchmark datasets that an active learning algorithm based on label-dispersion obtains excellent results.
Address September 2021
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Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes LAMP; OR Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ZRV2021 Serial 3673
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Author Patricia Suarez; Dario Carpio; Angel Sappa
Title Non-homogeneous Haze Removal Through a Multiple Attention Module Architecture Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Symposium on Visual Computing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 13018 Issue Pages 178–190
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Abstract This paper presents a novel attention based architecture to remove non-homogeneous haze. The proposed model is focused on obtaining the most representative characteristics of the image, at each learning cycle, by means of adaptive attention modules coupled with a residual learning convolutional network. The latter is based on the Res2Net model. The proposed architecture is trained with just a few set of images. Its performance is evaluated on a public benchmark—images from the non-homogeneous haze NTIRE 2021 challenge—and compared with state of the art approaches reaching the best result.
Address Virtual; October 2021
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ISVC
Notes MSIAU Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SCS2021 Serial 3668
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Author Henry Velesaca; Patricia Suarez; Dario Carpio; Angel Sappa
Title Synthesized Image Datasets: Towards an Annotation-Free Instance Segmentation Strategy Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Symposium on Visual Computing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 13017 Issue Pages 131–143
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Abstract This paper presents a complete pipeline to perform deep learning-based instance segmentation of different types of grains (e.g., corn, sunflower, soybeans, lentils, chickpeas, mote, and beans). The proposed approach consists of using synthesized image datasets for the training process, which are easily generated according to the category of the instance to be segmented. The synthesized imaging process allows generating a large set of well-annotated grain samples with high variability—as large and high as the user requires. Instance segmentation is performed through a popular deep learning based approach, the Mask R-CNN architecture, but any learning-based instance segmentation approach can be considered. Results obtained by the proposed pipeline show that the strategy of using synthesized image datasets for training instance segmentation helps to avoid the time-consuming image annotation stage, as well as to achieve higher intersection over union and average precision performances. Results obtained with different varieties of grains are shown, as well as comparisons with manually annotated images, showing both the simplicity of the process and the improvements in the performance.
Address Virtual; October 2021
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference ISVC
Notes MSIAU Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VSC2021 Serial 3667
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Author Smriti Joshi; Richard Osuala; Carlos Martin Isla; Victor M.Campello; Carla Sendra-Balcells; Karim Lekadir; Sergio Escalera
Title nn-UNet Training on CycleGAN-Translated Images for Cross-modal Domain Adaptation in Biomedical Imaging Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12963 Issue Pages 540–551
Keywords Domain adaptation; Vestibular schwannoma (VS); Deep learning; nn-UNet; CycleGAN
Abstract In recent years, deep learning models have considerably advanced the performance of segmentation tasks on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). However, these models show a considerable performance drop when they are evaluated on unseen data from a different distribution. Since annotation is often a hard and costly task requiring expert supervision, it is necessary to develop ways in which existing models can be adapted to the unseen domains without any additional labelled information. In this work, we explore one such technique which extends the CycleGAN [2] architecture to generate label-preserving data in the target domain. The synthetic target domain data is used to train the nn-UNet [3] framework for the task of multi-label segmentation. The experiments are conducted and evaluated on the dataset [1] provided in the ‘Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation’ challenge [23] for segmentation of vestibular schwannoma (VS) tumour and cochlea on contrast enhanced (ceT1) and high resolution (hrT2) MRI scans. In the proposed approach, our model obtains dice scores (DSC) 0.73 and 0.49 for tumour and cochlea respectively on the validation set of the dataset. This indicates the applicability of the proposed technique to real-world problems where data may be obtained by different acquisition protocols as in [1] where hrT2 images are more reliable, safer, and lower-cost alternative to ceT1.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAIW
Notes HUPBA; no menciona Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ JOM2022 Serial 3800
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Author Sanket Biswas; Pau Riba; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title Graph-Based Deep Generative Modelling for Document Layout Generation Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12917 Issue Pages 525-537
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Abstract One of the major prerequisites for any deep learning approach is the availability of large-scale training data. When dealing with scanned document images in real world scenarios, the principal information of its content is stored in the layout itself. In this work, we have proposed an automated deep generative model using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to generate synthetic data with highly variable and plausible document layouts that can be used to train document interpretation systems, in this case, specially in digital mailroom applications. It is also the first graph-based approach for document layout generation task experimented on administrative document images, in this case, invoices.
Address Lausanne; Suissa; September 2021
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.140; 110.312 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BRL2021 Serial 3676
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Author Pau Torras; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Jialuo Chen; Alicia Fornes
Title A Transcription Is All You Need: Learning to Align through Attention Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 14th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12916 Issue Pages 141–146
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Abstract Historical ciphered manuscripts are a type of document where graphical symbols are used to encrypt their content instead of regular text. Nowadays, expert transcriptions can be found in libraries alongside the corresponding manuscript images. However, those transcriptions are not aligned, so these are barely usable for training deep learning-based recognition methods. To solve this issue, we propose a method to align each symbol in the transcript of an image with its visual representation by using an attention-based Sequence to Sequence (Seq2Seq) model. The core idea is that, by learning to recognise symbols sequence within a cipher line image, the model also identifies their position implicitly through an attention mechanism. Thus, the resulting symbol segmentation can be later used for training algorithms. The experimental evaluation shows that this method is promising, especially taking into account the small size of the cipher dataset.
Address Virtual; September 2021
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG; 602.230; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TSC2021 Serial 3619
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Author Albert Suso; Pau Riba; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados
Title A Self-supervised Inverse Graphics Approach for Sketch Parametrization Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12916 Issue Pages 28-42
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Abstract The study of neural generative models of handwritten text and human sketches is a hot topic in the computer vision field. The landmark SketchRNN provided a breakthrough by sequentially generating sketches as a sequence of waypoints, and more recent articles have managed to generate fully vector sketches by coding the strokes as Bézier curves. However, the previous attempts with this approach need them all a ground truth consisting in the sequence of points that make up each stroke, which seriously limits the datasets the model is able to train in. In this work, we present a self-supervised end-to-end inverse graphics approach that learns to embed each image to its best fit of Bézier curves. The self-supervised nature of the training process allows us to train the model in a wider range of datasets, but also to perform better after-training predictions by applying an overfitting process on the input binary image. We report qualitative an quantitative evaluations on the MNIST and the Quick, Draw! datasets.
Address Lausanne; Suissa; September 2021
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SRR2021 Serial 3675
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Author Josep Llados; Daniel Lopresti; Seiichi Uchida (eds)
Title 16th International Conference, 2021, Proceedings, Part IV Type Book Whole
Year 2021 Publication Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12824 Issue Pages
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Abstract This four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.

The papers are organized into the following topical sections: document analysis for literature search, document summarization and translation, multimedia document analysis, mobile text recognition, document analysis for social good, indexing and retrieval of documents, physical and logical layout analysis, recognition of tables and formulas, and natural language processing (NLP) for document understanding.
Address Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5-10, 2021
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Publisher Springer Cham Place of Publication Editor Josep Llados; Daniel Lopresti; Seiichi Uchida
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-030-86336-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3728
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Author Josep Llados; Daniel Lopresti; Seiichi Uchida (eds)
Title 16th International Conference, 2021, Proceedings, Part III Type Book Whole
Year 2021 Publication Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12823 Issue Pages
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Abstract This four-volume set of LNCS 12821, LNCS 12822, LNCS 12823 and LNCS 12824, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 2021. The 182 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 340 submissions, and are presented with 13 competition reports.

The papers are organized into the following topical sections: document analysis for literature search, document summarization and translation, multimedia document analysis, mobile text recognition, document analysis for social good, indexing and retrieval of documents, physical and logical layout analysis, recognition of tables and formulas, and natural language processing (NLP) for document understanding.
Address Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5-10, 2021
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Cham Place of Publication Editor Josep Llados; Daniel Lopresti; Seiichi Uchida
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-030-86333-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3727
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Author Sanket Biswas; Pau Riba; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title DocSynth: A Layout Guided Approach for Controllable Document Image Synthesis Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12823 Issue Pages 555–568
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Abstract Despite significant progress on current state-of-the-art image generation models, synthesis of document images containing multiple and complex object layouts is a challenging task. This paper presents a novel approach, called DocSynth, to automatically synthesize document images based on a given layout. In this work, given a spatial layout (bounding boxes with object categories) as a reference by the user, our proposed DocSynth model learns to generate a set of realistic document images consistent with the defined layout. Also, this framework has been adapted to this work as a superior baseline model for creating synthetic document image datasets for augmenting real data during training for document layout analysis tasks. Different sets of learning objectives have been also used to improve the model performance. Quantitatively, we also compare the generated results of our model with real data using standard evaluation metrics. The results highlight that our model can successfully generate realistic and diverse document images with multiple objects. We also present a comprehensive qualitative analysis summary of the different scopes of synthetic image generation tasks. Lastly, to our knowledge this is the first work of its kind.
Address Lausanne; Suissa; September 2021
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference
Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.140; 110.312 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BRL2021a Serial 3573
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Author Adria Molina; Pau Riba; Lluis Gomez; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados
Title Date Estimation in the Wild of Scanned Historical Photos: An Image Retrieval Approach Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12822 Issue Pages 306-320
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Abstract This paper presents a novel method for date estimation of historical photographs from archival sources. The main contribution is to formulate the date estimation as a retrieval task, where given a query, the retrieved images are ranked in terms of the estimated date similarity. The closer are their embedded representations the closer are their dates. Contrary to the traditional models that design a neural network that learns a classifier or a regressor, we propose a learning objective based on the nDCG ranking metric. We have experimentally evaluated the performance of the method in two different tasks: date estimation and date-sensitive image retrieval, using the DEW public database, overcoming the baseline methods.
Address Lausanne; Suissa; September 2021
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.140; 110.312 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MRG2021b Serial 3571
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Author Pau Riba; Adria Molina; Lluis Gomez; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados
Title Learning to Rank Words: Optimizing Ranking Metrics for Word Spotting Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 12822 Issue Pages 381–395
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Abstract In this paper, we explore and evaluate the use of ranking-based objective functions for learning simultaneously a word string and a word image encoder. We consider retrieval frameworks in which the user expects a retrieval list ranked according to a defined relevance score. In the context of a word spotting problem, the relevance score has been set according to the string edit distance from the query string. We experimentally demonstrate the competitive performance of the proposed model on query-by-string word spotting for both, handwritten and real scene word images. We also provide the results for query-by-example word spotting, although it is not the main focus of this work.
Address Lausanne; Suissa; September 2021
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Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.140; 110.312 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RMG2021 Serial 3572
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