10 papers
Unapologetically Distributed: A Call for Decentralized Document Analysis
Adrià Molina, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Lladós
Privacy has become an increasingly important concern in the Document Analysis community, to the extent that in many environments such as archives, governmental institutions, and lo…
Robust Interpretation of Historical Documents in Knowledge Graphs Through Query Inference and Execution
Sebastià Nicolau, Adrià Molina, Oriol Ramos Terrades +1
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has redefined how users interact with information in digital environments. However, their widespread and often indiscriminate integrat…
Visual Model Checking: Graph-Based Inference of Visual Routines for Image Retrieval
Adrià Molina, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Lladós
Information retrieval lies at the foundation of the modern digital industry. While natural language search has seen dramatic progress in recent years largely driven by embedding-ba…
The OCR Quest for Generalization: Learning to recognize low-resource alphabets with model editing
Adrià Molina Rodríguez, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Lladós
Achieving robustness in recognition systems across diverse domains is crucial for their practical utility. While ample data availability is usually assumed, low-resource languages,…
Structured Analysis and Comparison of Alphabets in Historical Handwritten Ciphers
Martín Méndez, Pau Torras, Adrià Molina +3
Historical ciphered manuscripts are documents that were typically used in sensitive communications within military and diplomatic contexts or among members of secret societies. The…
The Role of Generative Systems in Historical Photography Management: A Case Study on Catalan Archives
Èric Śanchez, Adrià Molina, Oriol Ramos Terrades
The use of image analysis in automated photography management is an increasing trend in heritage institutions. Such tools alleviate the human cost associated with the manual and ex…
Fetch-A-Set: A Large-Scale OCR-Free Benchmark for Historical Document Retrieval
Adrià Molina, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Lladós
This paper introduces Fetch-A-Set (FAS), a comprehensive benchmark tailored for legislative historical document analysis systems, addressing the challenges of large-scale document…
A Generic Image Retrieval Method for Date Estimation of Historical Document Collections
Adrià Molina, Lluis Gomez, Oriol Ramos Terrades +1
Date estimation of historical document images is a challenging problem, with several contributions in the literature that lack of the ability to generalize from one dataset to othe…
Date Estimation in the Wild of Scanned Historical Photos: An Image Retrieval Approach
Adrià Molina, Pau Riba, Lluis Gomez +2
This paper presents a novel method for date estimation of historical photographs from archival sources. The main contribution is to formulate the date estimation as a retrieval tas…
Learning to Rank Words: Optimizing Ranking Metrics for Word Spotting
Pau Riba, Adrià Molina, Lluis Gomez +2
In this paper, we explore and evaluate the use of ranking-based objective functions for learning simultaneously a word string and a word image encoder. We consider retrieval framew…