5 papers
Reading Order Inference for Complex Document Layouts
Iddo Hakim, Sharva Gogawale, Omer Ventura +4
Reading order inference remains a critical bottleneck in the digitization of complex historical manuscripts, where pages contain multiple spatially interleaved reading streams, the…
Complex Layout Classification in the Wild: A Low-Resource Approach with Layout-Preserving Augmentations
Sharva Gogawale, Iddo Hakim, Gal Grudka +5
Many digitized corpora suffer from low resources because annotations may be scarce, page scans are noisy and of poor resolution, or layouts are structurally complex in ways that ne…
Bag of Bags: Adaptive Visual Vocabularies for Genizah Join Image Retrieval
Sharva Gogawale, Gal Grudka, Daria Vasyutinsky-Shapira +3
A join is a set of manuscript fragments identified as originally emanating from the same manuscript. We study manuscript join retrieval: Given a query image of a fragment, retrieve…
Segmentation of Ink and Parchment in Dead Sea Scroll Fragments
Berat Kurar-Barakat, Nachum Dershowitz
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls over 60 years ago is widely regarded as one of the greatest archaeological breakthroughs in modern history. Recent study of the scrolls presen…
Segmenting Dead Sea Scroll Fragments for a Scientific Image Set
Bronson Brown-deVost, Berat Kurar-Barakat, Nachum Dershowitz
This paper presents a customized pipeline for segmenting manuscript fragments from images curated by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The images present challenges for stand…