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TableCenterNet: A one-stage network for table structure recognition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-05-13 v2

Abstract

Table structure recognition aims to parse tables in unstructured data into machine-understandable formats. Recent methods address this problem through a two-stage process or optimized one-stage approaches. However, these methods either require multiple networks to be serially trained and perform more time-consuming sequential decoding, or rely on complex post-processing algorithms to parse the logical structure of tables. They struggle to balance cross-scenario adaptability, robustness, and computational efficiency. In this paper, we propose a one-stage end-to-end table structure parsing network called TableCenterNet. This network unifies the prediction of table spatial and logical structure into a parallel regression task for the first time, and implicitly learns the spatial-logical location mapping laws of cells through a synergistic architecture of shared feature extraction layers and task-specific decoding. Compared with two-stage methods, our method is easier to train and faster to infer. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that TableCenterNet can effectively parse table structures in diverse scenarios and achieve state-of-the-art performance on the TableGraph-24k dataset. Code is available at https://github.com/dreamy-xay/TableCenterNet.

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@article{arxiv.2504.17522,
  title  = {TableCenterNet: A one-stage network for table structure recognition},
  author = {Anyi Xiao and Cihui Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.17522},
  year   = {2025}
}
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