TGMS：一种端到端的表格图像到标记序列的识别框架

TGMS：an End-to-end Framework for Table Graph to Markup Sequence

摘要

由于表格样式和布局的多样性，从文档图像中识别二维结构的表格是一项复杂的任务。表格以紧凑的形式表达数据内容，提高信息传递和人类理解效率，但与人类相比，机器需要理解二维结构与内容之间的关系，因此使用机器自动识别表格面临很大的挑战。针对这一任务，提出了一种端到端的表格图像到标记序列的识别框架（TGMS：An End-to-End Framework for Table Graph to Markup Sequence）。该框架首先使用卷积神经网络来进行视觉特征提取，然后采用基于分割的方法识别单元格空间位置，构建表图并利用图卷积网络和注意力机制推导逻辑关系，最后识别区域内文本并结合逻辑关系生成表格标记序列。在 IC- DAR-2013、SciTSR、PubTabNet 3 个’泛使用的表格识别数据集上的实验结果表明，所提出的 TGMS 能有效完成表格识别任务。

Abstract

Recently，due to the variety of table styles and layouts，recognizing tables with 2D structure from document images is a com- plex task.Tables express data content in a compact form to improve the efficiency of information transfer and human comprehension， but the relationship between the 2D structure and the content needs to be understood by machines，making it challenging to automati- cally recognize tables.To address these issues，an end-to-end framework for Table Graph to Markup Sequence is proposed，named TGMS.The framework first uses a convolutional neural network for visual feature extraction，and then employs a segmentation-based approach to recognize the spatial location of cells.Secondly，it uses spatial location information to recognize the text in the region and constructs a graph，and deduces logical relationships using a graph convolutional network and an attention mechanism.Finally，the last module generates a sequence of table tokens by combining the logical relationships and the text in the cell.Experimental results on three widely used form recognition datasets，ICDAR-2013，SciTSR，and PubTabNet，show that the proposed TGMS can effectively ac- complish the form recognition task.

关键词

表格结构识别 / 表格识别 / 端到端 / 图卷积网络 / 注意力机制

Key words

table structure recognition / table recognition / end-to-end / graph convolutional network / attention mechanism

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基金资助

国家自然科学基金面上项目(62472043)