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An End-to-End Multi-Task Learning Model for Image-based Table Recognition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-03-30 v2

Abstract

Image-based table recognition is a challenging task due to the diversity of table styles and the complexity of table structures. Most of the previous methods focus on a non-end-to-end approach which divides the problem into two separate sub-problems: table structure recognition; and cell-content recognition and then attempts to solve each sub-problem independently using two separate systems. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multi-task learning model for image-based table recognition. The proposed model consists of one shared encoder, one shared decoder, and three separate decoders which are used for learning three sub-tasks of table recognition: table structure recognition, cell detection, and cell-content recognition. The whole system can be easily trained and inferred in an end-to-end approach. In the experiments, we evaluate the performance of the proposed model on two large-scale datasets: FinTabNet and PubTabNet. The experiment results show that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in all benchmark datasets.

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@article{arxiv.2303.08648,
  title  = {An End-to-End Multi-Task Learning Model for Image-based Table Recognition},
  author = {Nam Tuan Ly and Atsuhiro Takasu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08648},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

10 pages, VISAPP2023. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2303.07641

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