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This paper presents a novel attention-based neural network for structured reconstruction, which takes a 2D raster image as an input and reconstructs a planar graph depicting an underlying geometric structure. The approach detects corners…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jiacheng Chen , Yiming Qian , Yasutaka Furukawa

The growing complexity of legal cases has lead to an increasing interest in legal information retrieval systems that can effectively satisfy user-specific information needs. However, such downstream systems typically require documents to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Dennis Aumiller , Satya Almasian , Sebastian Lackner , Michael Gertz

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Cross-device user matching is a critical problem in numerous domains, including advertising, recommender systems, and cybersecurity. It involves identifying and linking different devices belonging to the same person, utilizing sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ali Taghibakhshi , Mingyuan Ma , Ashwath Aithal , Onur Yilmaz , Haggai Maron , Matthew West

Lengthy documents pose a unique challenge to neural language models due to substantial memory consumption. While existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models segment long texts into equal-length snippets (e.g., 128 tokens per snippet) or deploy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Guangzeng Han , Jack Tsao , Xiaolei Huang

Most models of visual attention aim at predicting either top-down or bottom-up control, as studied using different visual search and free-viewing tasks. In this paper we propose the Human Attention Transformer (HAT), a single model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhibo Yang , Sounak Mondal , Seoyoung Ahn , Ruoyu Xue , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

Understanding documents with rich layouts is an essential step towards information extraction. Business intelligence processes often require the extraction of useful semantic content from documents at a large scale for subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sanket Biswas , Ayan Banerjee , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

Tabular data in digital documents is widely used to express compact and important information for readers. However, it is challenging to parse tables from unstructured digital documents, such as PDFs and images, into machine-readable format…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

Recent progress has been made in using attention based encoder-decoder framework for image and video captioning. Most existing decoders apply the attention mechanism to every generated word including both visual words (e.g., "gun" and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Jingkuan Song , Xiangpeng Li , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen

Despite significant advances in deep learning, current Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems struggle with the inherent complexity of historical documents, including diverse writing styles, degraded text quality, and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Mohammed Hamdan , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

Despite recent significant advancements in Handwritten Document Recognition (HDR), the efficient and accurate recognition of text against complex backgrounds, diverse handwriting styles, and varying document layouts remains a practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Wenhao Gu , Li Gu , Ziqiang Wang , Ching Yee Suen , Yang Wang

Since its introduction, the transformers architecture has seen great adoption in NLP applications, but it also has limitations. Although the self-attention mechanism allows for generating very rich representations of the input text, its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Daniele Giofré , Sneha Ghantasala

Document structure analysis, aka document layout analysis, is crucial for understanding both the physical layout and logical structure of documents, serving information retrieval, document summarization, knowledge extraction, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Kai Hu , Qiang Huo

Scene Text Recognition (STR), the task of recognizing text against complex image backgrounds, is an active area of research. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still struggle to recognize text written in arbitrary shapes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Ron Litman , Oron Anschel , Shahar Tsiper , Roee Litman , Shai Mazor , R. Manmatha

The majority of document image analysis systems use a document skew detection algorithm to simplify all its further processing stages. A huge amount of such algorithms based on Hough transform (HT) analysis has already been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Pavel Bezmaternykh , Dmitry Nikolaev

Transformers have become the dominant architecture across a wide range of domains, largely due to the effectiveness of multi-head attention in capturing diverse representation subspaces. However, standard multi-head attention activates all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bilal Faye , Abdoulaye Mbaye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

This paper tackles the high computational/space complexity associated with Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) in vanilla vision transformers. To this end, we propose Hierarchical MHSA (H-MHSA), a novel approach that computes self-attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yun Liu , Yu-Huan Wu , Guolei Sun , Le Zhang , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

Transformer has been widely used in histopathology whole slide image (WSI) classification for the purpose of tumor grading, prognosis analysis, etc. However, the design of token-wise self-attention and positional embedding strategy in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yushan Zheng , Jun Li , Jun Shi , Fengying Xie , Zhiguo Jiang

Information in industry, research, and the public sector is widely stored as rendered documents (e.g., PDF files, scans). Hence, to enable downstream tasks, systems are needed that map rendered documents onto a structured hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Johannes Rausch , Gentiana Rashiti , Maxim Gusev , Ce Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

Traditional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models and other variations of the attention-mechanism such as hierarchical attention have been applied to the text summarization problem. Though there is a hierarchy in the way humans use language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Rajeev Bhatt Ambati , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Prasenjit Mitra