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Image quality assessment (IQA) is an active research area in the field of image processing. Most prior works focus on visual quality of natural images captured by cameras. In this paper, we explore visual quality of scanned documents,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Justin Yang , Peter Bauer , Todd Harris , Changhyung Lee , Hyeon Seok Seo , Jan P Allebach , Fengqing Zhu

Identifying suitable datasets for a research question remains challenging because existing dataset search engines rely heavily on metadata quality and keyword overlap, which often fail to capture the semantic intent of scientific…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhiyin Tan , Changxu Duan

Interacting with the legal system and the government requires the assembly and analysis of various pieces of information that can be spread across different (paper) documents, such as forms, certificates and contracts (e.g. leases). This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hannes Westermann , Jaromir Savelka

Accessing high-quality, open-access dermatopathology image datasets for learning and cross-referencing is a common challenge for clinicians and dermatopathology trainees. To establish a comprehensive open-access dermatopathology dataset for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ziyang Xu , Mingquan Lin , Yiliang Zhou , Zihan Xu , Seth J. Orlow , Shane A. Meehan , Alexandra Flamm , Ata S. Moshiri , Yifan Peng

Paper documents are widely used as an irreplaceable channel of information in many fields, especially in financial industry, fostering a great amount of demand for systems which can convert document images into structured data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Han Fu , Yunyu Bai , Zhuo Li , Jun Shen , Jianling Sun

This paper describes a dataset containing small images of text from everyday scenes. The purpose of the dataset is to support the development of new automated systems that can detect and analyze text. Although much research has been devoted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Ahmed Ibrahim , A. Lynn Abbott , Mohamed E. Hussein

A large amount of recent research has focused on tasks that combine language and vision, resulting in a proliferation of datasets and methods. One such task is action recognition, whose applications include image annotation, scene under-…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Spandana Gella , Frank Keller

Citation recommendation describes the task of recommending citations for a given text. Due to the overload of published scientific works in recent years on the one hand, and the need to cite the most appropriate publications when writing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Michael Färber , Adam Jatowt

We address the problem of predicting similarity between a pair of handwritten document images written by different individuals. This has applications related to matching and mining in image collections containing handwritten content. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Praveen Krishnan , C. V. Jawahar

Automatic processing of bibliographic data becomes very important in digital libraries, data science and machine learning due to its importance in keeping pace with the significant increase of published papers every year from one side and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Zeyd Boukhers , Philipp Mayr , Silvio Peroni

The digitisation of historical documents has provided historians with unprecedented research opportunities. Yet, the conventional approach to analysing historical documents involves converting them from images to text using OCR, a process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nadav Borenstein , Phillip Rust , Desmond Elliott , Isabelle Augenstein

The key to success in automating prior art search in patent research using artificial intelligence (AI) lies in developing large datasets for machine learning (ML) and ensuring their availability. This work is dedicated to providing a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Boris Genin , Alexander Gorbunov , Dmitry Zolkin , Igor Nekrasov

Digital libraries often face the challenge of processing a large volume of diverse document types. The manual collection and tagging of metadata can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. To address this, we aim to develop an automatic…

Systematic reviews, which entail the extraction of data from large numbers of scientific documents, are an ideal avenue for the application of machine learning. They are vital to many fields of science and philanthropy, but are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Alexander Robertson , Jasmina Lazic , Theodora Tsouloufi , Louise Donnison , Karen Smyth

In this paper, we introduce a fully convolutional network for the document layout analysis task. While state-of-the-art methods are using models pre-trained on natural scene images, our method Doc-UFCN relies on a U-shaped model trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Mélodie Boillet , Christopher Kermorvant , Thierry Paquet

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

Document image segmentation is crucial for document analysis and recognition but remains challenging due to the diversity of document formats and segmentation tasks. Existing methods often address these tasks separately, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiao-Hui Li , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

In recent years, many studies have applied wearable devices to capture psychophysiological data from software developers. However, the current literature lacks investigations that classify the studies and point out gaps to be explored. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Roger Vieira , Kleinner Farias

This paper surveys the current state of the art in document automation (DA). The objective of DA is to reduce the manual effort during the generation of documents by automatically integrating input from different sources and assembling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei , Omkar Patil , Tarun Joshi , Vijayan N. Nair