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Recently, neural models for information retrieval are becoming increasingly popular. They provide effective approaches for product search due to their competitive advantages in semantic matching. However, it is challenging to use…

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Organizational charts, also known as org charts, are critical representations of an organization's structure and the hierarchical relationships between its components and positions. However, manually extracting information from org charts…

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Inverse problems exist in a wide variety of physical domains from aerospace engineering to medical imaging. The goal is to infer the underlying state from a set of observations. When the forward model that produced the observations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Chelsea Sidrane , Sydney Katz , Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Charts are very popular for analyzing data, visualizing key insights and answering complex reasoning questions about data. To facilitate chart-based data analysis using natural language, several downstream tasks have been introduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ahmed Masry , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Xuan Long Do , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

There is lots of scientific work about object detection in images. For many applications like for example autonomous driving the actual data on which classification has to be done are videos. This work compares different methods, especially…

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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have recently been applied successfully to a variety of vision and multimedia tasks, thus driving development of novel solutions in several application domains. Document analysis is a particularly…

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In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable success in the field of image restoration. However, most convolutional neural network-based methods typically focus on a single scale, neglecting the incorporation of multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Jiatao Jiang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu , Jian Yang

Objective: To develop software utilizing optical character recognition toward the automatic extraction of data from bar charts for meta-analysis. Methods: We utilized a multistep data extraction approach that included figure extraction,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Alex Carderas , Ye Yuan , Itamar Livnat , Ryan Yanagihara , Rosita Saul , Gabrielle Montes De Oca , Kai Zheng , Andrew W. Browne

To avoid the exhaustive search over locations and scales, current state-of-the-art object detection systems usually involve a crucial component generating a batch of candidate object proposals from images. In this paper, we present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Xian Wu , Nong Xiao , Xiaonan Luo

We present a context aware object detection method based on a retrieve-and-transform scene layout model. Given an input image, our approach first retrieves a coarse scene layout from a codebook of typical layout templates. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tao Wang , Xuming He , Yuanzheng Cai , Guobao Xiao

Recurrent Networks are one of the most powerful and promising artificial neural network algorithms to processing the sequential data such as natural languages, sound, time series data. Unlike traditional feed-forward network, Recurrent…

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We present a neural operator framework for solving inverse scattering problems. A neural operator produces a preliminary indicator function for the scatterer, which, after appropriate rescaling, is used as a regularization parameter within…

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The goal of this work is to segment the objects in an image that are referred to by a sequence of linguistic descriptions (referring expressions). We propose a deep neural network with recurrent layers that output a sequence of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alba Herrera-Palacio , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Neural models have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse ranking tasks. However, the processes and internal mechanisms along which they determine relevance are still largely unknown. Existing approaches for analyzing neural…

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Automating the conversion of user interface design into code (image-to-code or image-to-UI) is an active area of software engineering research. However, the state-of-the-art solutions do not achieve high fidelity to the original design, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zoltan Toth-Czifra

Chart question-answering (QA) benchmarks aim to pose questions that require visual reasoning to correctly answer, but models can often reach solutions through shortcuts or prior familiarity with a chart based on their own background…

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Today, most methods for image understanding tasks rely on feed-forward neural networks. While this approach has allowed for empirical accuracy, efficiency, and task adaptation via fine-tuning, it also comes with fundamental disadvantages.…

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The task of person re-identification has recently received rising attention due to the high performance achieved by new methods based on deep learning. In particular, in the context of video-based re-identification, many state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Jean-Baptiste Boin , Andre Araujo , Bernd Girod

Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of…

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