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Recently, automatically extracting information from visually rich documents (e.g., tickets and resumes) has become a hot and vital research topic due to its widespread commercial value. Most existing methods divide this task into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhanzhan Cheng , Peng Zhang , Can Li , Qiao Liang , Yunlu Xu , Pengfei Li , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

This paper presents results of Document Visual Question Answering Challenge organized as part of "Text and Documents in the Deep Learning Era" workshop, in CVPR 2020. The challenge introduces a new problem - Visual Question Answering on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Minesh Mathew , Ruben Tito , Dimosthenis Karatzas , R. Manmatha , C. V. Jawahar

Current tasks and methods in Document Understanding aims to process documents as single elements. However, documents are usually organized in collections (historical records, purchase invoices), that provide context useful for their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rubèn Tito , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Ernest Valveny

Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of research works on the topic of form understanding in the context of scanned documents. We delve into recent advancements and breakthroughs in the field, highlighting the significance of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Daniel Eberharter , Zoe Pfister , Adam Jatowt

Readability is on the cusp of a revolution. Fixed text is becoming fluid as a proliferation of digital reading devices rewrite what a document can do. As past constraints make way for more flexible opportunities, there is great need to…

Research in visualization literacy explores the skills required to engage with visualizations. This state-of-the-art report surveys the current literature in visualization literacy to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Matthew Varona , Karen Bonilla , Maryam Hedayati , Alark Joshi , Lane Harrison , Matthew Kay , Carolina Nobre

Understanding and extracting of information from large documents, such as business opportunities, academic articles, medical documents and technical reports, poses challenges not present in short documents. Such large documents may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction,…

With the rapid proliferation of multimodal information, Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) has emerged as a critical frontier in bridging the gap between unstructured visually rich data and precise information acquisition. Unlike traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yibo Yan , Jiahao Huo , Guanbo Feng , Mingdong Ou , Yi Cao , Xin Zou , Shuliang Liu , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Yu Huang , Jungang Li , Kening Zheng , Xu Zheng , Philip S. Yu , James Kwok , Xuming Hu

Understanding visual question answering is going to be crucial for numerous human activities. However, it presents major challenges at the heart of the artificial intelligence endeavor. This paper presents an update on the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Venkat Kodali , Daniel Berleant

Deep Learning and its applications have cascaded impactful research and development with a diverse range of modalities present in the real-world data. More recently, this has enhanced research interests in the intersection of the Vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Devamanyu Hazarika , Navonil Majumdar , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Amir Zadeh

Multimodal pre-training with text, layout, and image has made significant progress for Visually Rich Document Understanding (VRDU), especially the fixed-layout documents such as scanned document images. While, there are still a large number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Junlong Li , Yiheng Xu , Lei Cui , Furu Wei

We aim to develop a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that answers questions over a corpus of visually-rich documents presented in mixed modalities (e.g., charts, tables) and diverse formats (e.g., PDF, PPTX). In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ryota Tanaka , Taichi Iki , Taku Hasegawa , Kyosuke Nishida , Kuniko Saito , Jun Suzuki

Many users turn to document retrieval systems (e.g. search engines) to seek answers to controversial questions. Answering such user queries usually require identifying responses within web documents, and aggregating the responses based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sihao Chen , Siyi Liu , Xander Uyttendaele , Yi Zhang , William Bruno , Dan Roth

Document image has been the area of research for a couple of decades because of its potential application in the area of text recognition, line recognition or any other shape recognition from the image. For most of these purposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Mahua Nandy , Satadal Saha

Document understanding is critical for applications from financial analysis to scientific discovery. Current approaches, whether OCR-based pipelines feeding Large Language Models (LLMs) or native Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), face key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sensen Gao , Shanshan Zhao , Xu Jiang , Lunhao Duan , Yong Xien Chng , Qing-Guo Chen , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Jia-Wang Bian , Mingming Gong

Medical Visual Question Answering~(VQA) is a combination of medical artificial intelligence and popular VQA challenges. Given a medical image and a clinically relevant question in natural language, the medical VQA system is expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhihong Lin , Donghao Zhang , Qingyi Tao , Danli Shi , Gholamreza Haffari , Qi Wu , Mingguang He , Zongyuan Ge

The current information age has increasingly required organizations to become data-driven. However, analyzing and managing raw data is still a challenging part of the data mining process. Even though we can find interview studies proposing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Alessandra Milani , Fernando Paulovich , Isabel Manssour

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task combines challenges for processing data with both Visual and Linguistic processing, to answer basic `common sense' questions about given images. Given an image and a question in natural language, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee