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Document layout analysis is essential for downstream tasks such as information retrieval, extraction, OCR, and digitization. However, existing large-scale datasets like PubLayNet and DocBank lack fine-grained region labels and multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Oikantik Nath , Sahithi Kukkala , Mitesh Khapra , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Document layout analysis is a known problem to the documents research community and has been vastly explored yielding a multitude of solutions ranging from text mining, and recognition to graph-based representation, visual feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Subhajit Maity , Sanket Biswas , Siladittya Manna , Ayan Banerjee , Josep Lladós , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sanket Biswas , Pau Riba , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

Document layout analysis involves understanding the arrangement of elements within a document. This paper navigates the complexities of understanding various elements within document images, such as text, images, tables, and headings. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Tahira Shehzadi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Deep learning-based vision is characterized by intricate frameworks that often necessitate a profound understanding, presenting a barrier to newcomers and limiting broad adoption. With many researchers grappling with the constraints of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fabi Prezja

Much of the recent success of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been spurred on by impressive achievements within a broader family of machine learning methods, commonly referred to as Deep Learning (DL). This paper provides insights on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Stefano Bianchini , Moritz Müller , Pierre Pelletier

Deep Research systems have revolutionized how LLMs solve complex questions through iterative reasoning and evidence gathering. However, current systems remain fundamentally constrained to textual web data, overlooking the vast knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Kuicai Dong , Shurui Huang , Fangda Ye , Wei Han , Zhi Zhang , Dexun Li , Wenjun Li , Qu Yang , Gang Wang , Yichao Wang , Chen Zhang , Yong Liu

The document layout analysis (DLA) aims to decompose document images into high-level semantic areas (i.e., figures, tables, texts, and background). Creating a DLA framework with strong generalization capabilities is a challenge due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xingjiao Wu , Luwei Xiao , Xiangcheng Du , Yingbin Zheng , Xin Li , Tianlong Ma , Cheng Jin , Liang He

Accurate document layout analysis is a key requirement for high-quality PDF document conversion. With the recent availability of public, large ground-truth datasets such as PubLayNet and DocBank, deep-learning models have proven to be very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Birgit Pfitzmann , Christoph Auer , Michele Dolfi , Ahmed S Nassar , Peter W J Staar

When reading a document, glancing at the spatial layout of a document is an initial step to understand it roughly. Traditional document layout analysis (DLA) methods, however, offer only a superficial parsing of documents, focusing on basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yufan Chen , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on general-purpose tasks, yet adapting them to specific domains remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality domain data. Existing data synthesis tools often struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ziyang Miao , Qiyu Sun , Jingyuan Wang , Yuchen Gong , Yaowei Zheng , Shiqi Li , Richong Zhang

Compared with flatbed scanners, portable smartphones provide more convenience for physical document digitization. However, such digitized documents are often distorted due to uncontrolled physical deformations, camera positions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Hao Feng , Wengang Zhou , Jiajun Deng , Qi Tian , Houqiang Li

Document layout analysis aims to detect and categorize structural elements (e.g., titles, tables, figures) in scanned or digital documents. Popular methods often rely on high-quality Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to merge visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Fuyuan Liu , Dianyu Yu , He Ren , Nayu Liu , Xiaomian Kang , Delai Qiu , Fa Zhang , Genpeng Zhen , Shengping Liu , Jiaen Liang , Wei Huang , Yining Wang , Junnan Zhu

Although there exist several libraries for deep learning on graphs, they are aiming at implementing basic operations for graph deep learning. In the research community, implementing and benchmarking various advanced tasks are still painful…

Document parsing (DP) transforms unstructured or semi-structured documents into structured, machine-readable representations, enabling downstream applications such as knowledge base construction and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).…

We introduce LAVIS, an open-source deep learning library for LAnguage-VISion research and applications. LAVIS aims to serve as a one-stop comprehensive library that brings recent advancements in the language-vision field accessible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Dongxu Li , Junnan Li , Hung Le , Guangsen Wang , Silvio Savarese , Steven C. H. Hoi

The lack of generalizability -- in which a model trained on one dataset cannot provide accurate results for a different dataset -- is a known problem in the field of document layout analysis. Thus, when a model is used to locate important…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Jill P. Naiman

Deep learning (DL) is one of the fastest growing topics in materials data science, with rapidly emerging applications spanning atomistic, image-based, spectral, and textual data modalities. DL allows analysis of unstructured data and…

Deep learning has enabled major advances in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and multimedia among many others. Developing a deep learning system is arduous and complex, as it involves constructing neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Hao Dong , Akara Supratak , Luo Mai , Fangde Liu , Axel Oehmichen , Simiao Yu , Yike Guo

Document AI (DAI) has emerged as a vital application area, and is significantly transformed by the advent of large language models (LLMs). While earlier approaches relied on encoder-decoder architectures, decoder-only LLMs have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Weishi Wang , Hengchang Hu , Zhijie Zhang , Zhaochen Li , Hongxin Shao , Daniel Dahlmeier