DELINE8K: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for the Semantic Segmentation of Historical Documents

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Auteurs principaux: Archibald, Taylor, Martinez, Tony
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author Archibald, Taylor
Martinez, Tony
author_facet Archibald, Taylor
Martinez, Tony
contents Document semantic segmentation is a promising avenue that can facilitate document analysis tasks, including optical character recognition (OCR), form classification, and document editing. Although several synthetic datasets have been developed to distinguish handwriting from printed text, they fall short in class variety and document diversity. We demonstrate the limitations of training on existing datasets when solving the National Archives Form Semantic Segmentation dataset (NAFSS), a dataset which we introduce. To address these limitations, we propose the most comprehensive document semantic segmentation synthesis pipeline to date, incorporating preprinted text, handwriting, and document backgrounds from over 10 sources to create the Document Element Layer INtegration Ensemble 8K, or DELINE8K dataset. Our customized dataset exhibits superior performance on the NAFSS benchmark, demonstrating it as a promising tool in further research. The DELINE8K dataset is available at https://github.com/Tahlor/deline8k.
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spellingShingle DELINE8K: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for the Semantic Segmentation of Historical Documents
Archibald, Taylor
Martinez, Tony
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Document semantic segmentation is a promising avenue that can facilitate document analysis tasks, including optical character recognition (OCR), form classification, and document editing. Although several synthetic datasets have been developed to distinguish handwriting from printed text, they fall short in class variety and document diversity. We demonstrate the limitations of training on existing datasets when solving the National Archives Form Semantic Segmentation dataset (NAFSS), a dataset which we introduce. To address these limitations, we propose the most comprehensive document semantic segmentation synthesis pipeline to date, incorporating preprinted text, handwriting, and document backgrounds from over 10 sources to create the Document Element Layer INtegration Ensemble 8K, or DELINE8K dataset. Our customized dataset exhibits superior performance on the NAFSS benchmark, demonstrating it as a promising tool in further research. The DELINE8K dataset is available at https://github.com/Tahlor/deline8k.
title DELINE8K: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for the Semantic Segmentation of Historical Documents
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19259