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Extracting information from documents usually relies on natural language processing methods working on one-dimensional sequences of text. In some cases, for example, for the extraction of key information from semi-structured documents, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Oliver Bensch , Mirela Popa , Constantin Spille

Diffusion Models (DMs) have become powerful image generation tools, especially for few-shot fine-tuning where a pretrained DM is fine-tuned on a small image set to capture specific styles or objects. Many people upload these personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiaoyu Wu , Jiaru Zhang , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In this paper, we fill the research gap by adopting state-of-the-art computer vision techniques for the data extraction stage in a data mining system. As shown in Fig.1, this stage contains two subtasks, namely, plot element detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Weihong Ma , Hesuo Zhang , Shuang Yan , Guangshun Yao , Yichao Huang , Hui Li , Yaqiang Wu , Lianwen Jin

In this paper, we present a novel framework to detect line segments in man-made environments. Specifically, we propose to describe junctions, line segments and relationships between them with a simple graph, which is more structured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Ziheng Zhang , Zhengxin Li , Ning Bi , Jia Zheng , Jinlei Wang , Kun Huang , Weixin Luo , Yanyu Xu , Shenghua Gao

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a widely adopted standard for representing complex business workflows. While BPMN diagrams are often exchanged as visual images, existing methods primarily rely on XML representations for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Pritam Deka , Barry Devereux

We introduce a novel approach for scanned document representation to perform field extraction. It allows the simultaneous encoding of the textual, visual and layout information in a 3-axis tensor used as an input to a segmentation model. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Mohamed Kerroumi , Othmane Sayem , Aymen Shabou

Charts are an excellent way to convey patterns and trends in data, but they do not facilitate further modeling of the data or close inspection of individual data points. We present a fully automated system for extracting the numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Mathieu Cliche , David Rosenberg , Dhruv Madeka , Connie Yee

Previous approaches for scene text detection have already achieved promising performances across various benchmarks. However, they usually fall short when dealing with challenging scenarios, even when equipped with deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Xinyu Zhou , Cong Yao , He Wen , Yuzhi Wang , Shuchang Zhou , Weiran He , Jiajun Liang

Process extraction from text is an important task of process discovery, for which various approaches have been developed in recent years. However, in contrast to other information extraction tasks, there is a lack of gold-standard corpora…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Patrizio Bellan , Han van der Aa , Mauro Dragoni , Chiara Ghidini , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Digitizing engineering diagrams like Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) plays a vital role in maintainability and operational efficiency of process and hydraulic systems. Previous methods typically decompose the task into separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jan Marius Stürmer , Marius Graumann , Tobias Koch

The extraction of structured information from raw text is a fundamental component of many NLP applications, including document retrieval, ranking, and relevance estimation. High-quality extractions often require domain-specific accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Moin Amin-Naseri , Hannah Kim , Estevam Hruschka

We present an end-to-end, multimodal, fully convolutional network for extracting semantic structures from document images. We consider document semantic structure extraction as a pixel-wise segmentation task, and propose a unified model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Xiao Yang , Ersin Yumer , Paul Asente , Mike Kraley , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

We present FlowDet, the first formulation of object detection using modern Conditional Flow Matching techniques. This work follows from DiffusionDet, which originally framed detection as a generative denoising problem in the bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Enis Baty , C. P. Bridges , Simon Hadfield

Chemical structure extraction from documents remains a hard problem due to both false positive identification of structures during segmentation and errors in the predicted structures. Current approaches rely on handcrafted rules and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Joshua Staker , Kyle Marshall , Robert Abel , Carolyn McQuaw

Accurately extracting structured data from structure diagrams in financial announcements is of great practical importance for building financial knowledge graphs and further improving the efficiency of various financial applications. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Meixuan Qiao , Jun Wang , Junfu Xiang , Qiyu Hou , Ruixuan Li

Tracking progress in machine learning has become increasingly difficult with the recent explosion in the number of papers. In this paper, we present AxCell, an automatic machine learning pipeline for extracting results from papers. AxCell…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Marcin Kardas , Piotr Czapla , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Ruder , Sebastian Riedel , Ross Taylor , Robert Stojnic

Information Extraction from visually rich documents is a challenging task that has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its importance in several document-control based applications and its widespread commercial value. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mohamed Dhouib , Ghassen Bettaieb , Aymen Shabou

The paper presents a new model for single channel images low-level interpretation. The image is decomposed into a graph which captures a complete set of structural features. The description allows to accurately identify every edge location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alessandro Dal Palu'

Organizational charts, also known as org charts, are critical representations of an organization's structure and the hierarchical relationships between its components and positions. However, manually extracting information from org charts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nikhil Manali , David Doermann , Mahesh Desai

Event extraction involves the detection and extraction of both the event triggers and corresponding event arguments. Existing systems often decompose event extraction into multiple subtasks, without considering their possible interactions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Huiling You , David Samuel , Samia Touileb , Lilja Øvrelid