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Tables are pervasive in diverse documents, making table recognition (TR) a fundamental task in document analysis. Existing modular TR pipelines separately model table structure and content, leading to suboptimal integration and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chunxia Qin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Jun Du , Baocai Yin , Bing Yin , Cong Liu

Table annotation is crucial for making web and enterprise tables usable in downstream NLP applications. Unlike textual data where learning semantically rich token or sentence embeddings often suffice, tables are structured combinations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ehsan Hoseinzade , Ke Wang , Anandharaju Durai Raju

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims to convert tabular images into a machine-readable format, where a visual encoder extracts image features and a textual decoder generates table-representing tokens. Existing approaches use classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 ShengYun Peng , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

We present a novel deep-learning-based method to cluster words in documents which we apply to detect and recognize tables given the OCR output. We interpret table structure bottom-up as a graph of relations between pairs of words (belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Marek Polewczyk , Marco Spinaci

Segmenting small and sparse structures in large-scale images is fundamentally constrained by voxel-level, lattice-bound computation and extreme class imbalance -- dense, full-resolution inference scales poorly and forces most pipelines to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Luke James Miller , Yugyung Lee

Cross-modal retrieval between food images and recipe texts is an important task with applications in nutritional management, dietary logging, and cooking assistance. Existing methods predominantly rely on dual-encoder architectures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Keisuke Gomi , Keiji Yanai

Automated and semi-automated techniques in biomedical electron microscopy (EM) enable the acquisition of large datasets at a high rate. Segmentation methods are therefore essential to analyze and interpret these large volumes of data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anusha Aswath , Ahmad Alsahaf , Ben N. G. Giepmans , George Azzopardi

In the present paper, we propose the model of {\it structural information learning machines} (SiLeM for short), leading to a mathematical definition of learning by merging the theories of computation and information. Our model shows that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Angsheng Li

Tables are information-rich structured objects in document images. While significant work has been done in localizing tables as graphic objects in document images, only limited attempts exist on table structure recognition. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Sachin Raja , Ajoy Mondal , C. V. Jawahar

Table structure recognition aims to extract the logical and physical structure of unstructured table images into a machine-readable format. The latest end-to-end image-to-text approaches simultaneously predict the two structures by two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yongshuai Huang , Ning Lu , Dapeng Chen , Yibo Li , Zecheng Xie , Shenggao Zhu , Liangcai Gao , Wei Peng

We present a new table structure recognition (TSR) approach, called TSRFormer, to robustly recognizing the structures of complex tables with geometrical distortions from various table images. Unlike previous methods, we formulate table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Weihong Lin , Zheng Sun , Chixiang Ma , Mingze Li , Jiawei Wang , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Anyi Xiao , Cihui Yang

Documents are often used for knowledge sharing and preservation in business and science, within which are tables that capture most of the critical data. Unfortunately, most documents are stored and distributed as PDF or scanned images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Xinyi Zheng , Doug Burdick , Lucian Popa , Xu Zhong , Nancy Xin Ru Wang

Telecommunication standards pose a unique challenge for retrieval systems, where accuracy depends on semantic relevance as well as on preserving the structural logic embedded in the documents, including structured relationships embedded in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yuzhi Yang , Lina Bariah , Yuhuan Lu , Hang Zou , Mérouane Debbah

Table detection within document images is a crucial task in document processing, involving the identification and localization of tables. Recent strides in deep learning have substantially improved the accuracy of this task, but it still…

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

Learning the embedding space, where semantically similar objects are located close together and dissimilar objects far apart, is a cornerstone of many computer vision applications. Existing approaches usually learn a single metric in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Vadim Tschernezki , Uta Büchler , Björn Ommer

We introduce a new table detection and structure recognition approach named RobusTabNet to detect the boundaries of tables and reconstruct the cellular structure of each table from heterogeneous document images. For table detection, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Chixiang Ma , Weihong Lin , Lei Sun , Qiang Huo

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. However, significant challenges exist in algorithm design when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yi Huang , Ke Zhang , Wei Liu , Yuanyuan Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Le Lu , Xu Han , Dakai Jin , Ke Yan

Efficient and accurate joint representation of a collection of images, that belong to the same class, is a major research challenge for practical image set classification. Existing methods either make prior assumptions about the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Muhammad Uzair , Faisal Shafait , Bernard Ghanem , Ajmal Mian

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a popular tool in the social and behavioural sciences, where it is being applied to ever more complex data types. The high-dimensional data produced by modern sensors, brain images, or (epi)genetic…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-11 Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Daniel L. Oberski