Title
Accurate Fine-Grained Layout Analysis for the Historical Tibetan Document Based on the Instance Segmentation
Abstract
Accurate layout analysis without subsequent text-line segmentation remains an ongoing challenge, especially when facing the Kangyur, a kind of historical Tibetan document featuring considerable touching components and mottled background. Aiming at identifying different regions in document images, layout analysis is indispensable for subsequent procedures such as character recognition. However, there was only a little research being carried out to perform line-level layout analysis which failed to deal with the Kangyur. To obtain the optimal results, a fine-grained sub-line level layout analysis approach is presented. Firstly, we introduced an accelerated method to build the dataset which is dynamic and reliable. Secondly, enhancement had been made to the SOLOv2 according to the characteristics of the Kangyur. Then, we fed the enhanced SOLOv2 with the prepared annotation file during the training phase. Once the network is trained, instances of the text line, sentence, and titles can be segmented and identified during the inference stage. The experimental results show that the proposed method delivers a decent 72.7% average precision on our dataset. In general, this preliminary research provides insights into the fine-grained sub-line level layout analysis and testifies the SOLOv2-based approaches. We also believe that the proposed methods can be adopted on other language documents with various layouts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3128536
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Layout, Image segmentation, Text analysis, Annotations, Text recognition, Semantics, Character recognition, Document analysis and recognition, fine-grained layout analysis, historical Tibetan document images, layout analysis, text line segmentation
Journal
9
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Penghai Zhao100.34
Weilan Wang2911.75
Xiao-Juan Wang3228.34
Zhengqi Cai400.68
Guowei Zhang500.34
Yuqi Lu600.34