Journal
NEUROCOMPUTING
Volume 350, Issue -, Pages 271-281Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2019.04.001
Keywords
Weakly supervised learning; Recognition-guided; Historical document images segmentation
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB1001405]
- GD-NSF [2017A030312006]
- NSFC [61673182, 61771199]
- GDSTP [2017A010101027]
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With the passing of history, precious cultural heritage was left behind to tell ancient stories, especially those in the form of written documents. In this paper, a weakly supervised segmentation system with recognition-guided information on attention area, is proposed for high-precision historical document segmentation under strict intersection-over-union (IoU) requirements. We formulate the character segmentation problem from Bayesian decision theory perspective and propose boundary box segmentation (BBS), recognition-guided BBS (Rg-BBS), and recognition-guided attention BBS (Rg-ABBS), progressively, to search for the segmentation path. Furthermore, a novel judgment gate mechanism is proposed to train a high-performance character recognizer in an incremental weakly supervised learning manner. The proposed Rg-ABBS method is shown to substantially reduce time consumption while maintaining sufficiently high precision of the segmentation result by incorporating both character recognition knowledge and line-level annotation. Experiments show that the proposed Rg-ABBS system significantly outperforms traditional segmentation methods as well as deep-learning-based instance segmentation and detection methods under strict IoU requirements. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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