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20162026
most citedCutting the Error by Half: Investigation of Very Deep CNN and Advanced Training Strategies for Document Image Classification

119 citations · 845 across the 65 of their papers we have counts for

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70 papers

cs.LG2026

DocDjinn: Controllable Synthetic Document Generation with VLMs and Handwriting Diffusion

Marcel Lamott, Saifullah Saifullah, Nauman Riaz +11

Effective document intelligence models rely on large amounts of annotated training data. However, procuring sufficient and high-quality data poses significant challenges due to the…

cs.LG2026

The Sound of Death: Deep Learning Reveals Vascular Damage from Carotid Ultrasound

Christoph Balada, Aida Romano-Martinez, Payal Varshney +10

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, yet early risk detection is often limited by available diagnostics. Carotid ultrasound, a non-invasi…

cs.CV2025

LD-ViCE: Latent Diffusion Model for Video Counterfactual Explanations

Payal Varshney, Adriano Lucieri, Christoph Balada +2

Video-based AI systems are increasingly adopted in safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving and healthcare. However, interpreting their decisions remains challenging due…

cs.CV2025

DocVCE: Diffusion-based Visual Counterfactual Explanations for Document Image Classification

Saifullah Saifullah, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel +1

As black-box AI-driven decision-making systems become increasingly widespread in modern document processing workflows, improving their transparency and reliability has become criti…

cs.CR2025

DP-DocLDM: Differentially Private Document Image Generation using Latent Diffusion Models

Saifullah Saifullah, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel +1

As deep learning-based, data-driven information extraction systems become increasingly integrated into modern document processing workflows, one primary concern is the risk of mali…

cs.LG2025

FREQuency ATTribution: benchmarking frequency-based occlusion for time series data

Dominique Mercier, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed

Deep neural networks are among the most successful algorithms in terms of performance and scalability across different domains. However, since these networks are black boxes, their…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

Discovering Concept Directions from Diffusion-based Counterfactuals via Latent Clustering

Payal Varshney, Adriano Lucieri, Christoph Balada +2

Concept-based explanations have emerged as an effective approach within Explainable Artificial Intelligence, enabling interpretable insights by aligning model decisions with human-…

cs.CV2025

Deep Learning for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Proxy Features from Carotid Sonography as Predictors of Arterial Damage

Christoph Balada, Aida Romano-Martinez, Vincent ten Cate +9

In this study, hypertension is utilized as an indicator of individual vascular damage. This damage can be identified through machine learning techniques, providing an early risk ma…

cs.CV2024

WordVIS: A Color Worth A Thousand Words

Umar Khan, Saifullah, Stefan Agne +2

Document classification is considered a critical element in automated document processing systems. In recent years multi-modal approaches have become increasingly popular for docum…

cs.CV2024

Latent Diffusion for Guided Document Table Generation

Syed Jawwad Haider Hamdani, Saifullah Saifullah, Stefan Agne +2

Obtaining annotated table structure data for complex tables is a challenging task due to the inherent diversity and complexity of real-world document layouts. The scarcity of publi…

cs.CL2024

StylusAI: Stylistic Adaptation for Robust German Handwritten Text Generation

Nauman Riaz, Saifullah Saifullah, Stefan Agne +2

In this study, we introduce StylusAI, a novel architecture leveraging diffusion models in the domain of handwriting style generation. StylusAI is specifically designed to adapt and…

cs.CV2024

DocXplain: A Novel Model-Agnostic Explainability Method for Document Image Classification

Saifullah Saifullah, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel +1

Deep learning (DL) has revolutionized the field of document image analysis, showcasing superhuman performance across a diverse set of tasks. However, the inherent black-box nature…

cs.LG2024

VAEneu: A New Avenue for VAE Application on Probabilistic Forecasting

Alireza Koochali, Ensiye Tahaei, Andreas Dengel +1

This paper presents VAEneu, an innovative autoregressive method for multistep ahead univariate probabilistic time series forecasting. We employ the conditional VAE framework and op…

cs.CL2024

Improving Disease Detection from Social Media Text via Self-Augmentation and Contrastive Learning

Pervaiz Iqbal Khan, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed

Detecting diseases from social media has diverse applications, such as public health monitoring and disease spread detection. While language models (LMs) have shown promising perfo…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Generating Counterfactual Trajectories with Latent Diffusion Models for Concept Discovery

Payal Varshney, Adriano Lucieri, Christoph Balada +2

Trustworthiness is a major prerequisite for the safe application of opaque deep learning models in high-stakes domains like medicine. Understanding the decision-making process not…

cs.LG2023

Class Conditional Time Series Generation with Structured Noise Space GAN

Hamidreza Gholamrezaei, Alireza Koochali, Andreas Dengel +1

This paper introduces Structured Noise Space GAN (SNS-GAN), a novel approach in the field of generative modeling specifically tailored for class-conditional generation in both imag…

eess.IV2023

Medi-CAT: Contrastive Adversarial Training for Medical Image Classification

Pervaiz Iqbal Khan, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed

There are not many large medical image datasets available. For these datasets, too small deep learning models can't learn useful features, so they don't work well due to underfitti…

cs.AI2023

A Unique Training Strategy to Enhance Language Models Capabilities for Health Mention Detection from Social Media Content

Pervaiz Iqbal Khan, Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Andreas Dengel +1

An ever-increasing amount of social media content requires advanced AI-based computer programs capable of extracting useful information. Specifically, the extraction of health-rela…

cs.CL2023

PrIeD-KIE: Towards Privacy Preserved Document Key Information Extraction

Saifullah Saifullah, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel +1

In this paper, we introduce strategies for developing private Key Information Extraction (KIE) systems by leveraging large pretrained document foundation models in conjunction with…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

From Private to Public: Benchmarking GANs in the Context of Private Time Series Classification

Dominique Mercier, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed

Deep learning has proven to be successful in various domains and for different tasks. However, when it comes to private data several restrictions are making it difficult to use dee…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

A Bayesian Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to Generate Synthetic Time-Series Data, Application in Combined Sewer Flow Prediction

Amin E. Bakhshipour, Alireza Koochali, Ulrich Dittmer +3

Despite various breakthroughs in machine learning and data analysis techniques for improving smart operation and management of urban water infrastructures, some key limitations obs…

cs.LG2022★ 24 cited

Privacy Meets Explainability: A Comprehensive Impact Benchmark

Saifullah Saifullah, Dominique Mercier, Adriano Lucieri +2

Since the mid-10s, the era of Deep Learning (DL) has continued to this day, bringing forth new superlatives and innovations each year. Nevertheless, the speed with which these inno…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Quantifying Quality of Class-Conditional Generative Models in Time-Series Domain

Alireza Koochali, Maria Walch, Sankrutyayan Thota +3

Generative models are designed to address the data scarcity problem. Even with the exploding amount of data, due to computational advancements, some applications (e.g., health care…

cs.CV2022

Revisiting the Shape-Bias of Deep Learning for Dermoscopic Skin Lesion Classification

Adriano Lucieri, Fabian Schmeisser, Christoph Peter Balada +3

It is generally believed that the human visual system is biased towards the recognition of shapes rather than textures. This assumption has led to a growing body of work aiming to…