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Efficient few-shot learning for pixel-precise handwritten document layout analysis

27 Oct 2022arXiv:2210.15570archive 2025-07-28

Axel De Nardin, Silvia Zottin, Matteo Paier, Gian Luca Foresti, Emanuela Colombi, Claudio Piciarelli

Layout analysis is a task of uttermost importance in ancient handwritten document analysis and represents a fundamental step toward the simplification of subsequent tasks such as optical character recognition and automatic transcription. However, many of the approaches adopted to solve this problem rely on a fully supervised learning paradigm. While these systems achieve very good performance on this task, the drawback is that pixel-precise text labeling of the entire training set is a very time-consuming process, which makes this type of information rarely available in a real-world scenario. In the present paper, we address this problem by proposing an efficient few-shot learning framework that achieves performances comparable to current state-of-the-art fully supervised methods on the publicly available DIVA-HisDB dataset.

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Document Layout AnalysisFew-Shot LearningOptical Character RecognitionOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Semantic Segmentation

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Semantic Segmentation DIVA-HisDB WACV '23 (few-shot) Mean IoU (class) 96.30 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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