Towards Automatic Parsing of Structured Visual Content through the Use of Synthetic Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14136v1
• Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:44:52 GMT
• Title: Towards Automatic Parsing of Structured Visual Content through the Use of Synthetic Data
• Authors: Lukas Scholch, Jonas Steinhauser, Maximilian Beichter, Constantin Seibold, Kailun Yang, Merlin Kn\"able, Thorsten Schwarz, Alexander M\"adche, and Rainer Stiefelhagen
• Abstract summary: We propose a synthetic dataset, containing Structured Visual Content (SVCs) in the form of images and ground truths. We show the usage of this dataset by an application that automatically extracts a graph representation from an SVC image. Our dataset enables the development of strong models for the interpretation of SVCs while skipping the time-consuming dense data annotation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Structured Visual Content (SVC) such as graphs, flow charts, or the like are used by authors to illustrate various concepts. While such depictions allow the average reader to better understand the contents, images containing SVCs are typically not machine-readable. This, in turn, not only hinders automated knowledge aggregation, but also the perception of displayed in-formation for visually impaired people. In this work, we propose a synthetic dataset, containing SVCs in the form of images as well as ground truths. We show the usage of this dataset by an application that automatically extracts a graph representation from an SVC image. This is done by training a model via common supervised learning methods. As there currently exist no large-scale public datasets for the detailed analysis of SVC, we propose the Synthetic SVC (SSVC) dataset comprising 12,000 images with respective bounding box annotations and detailed graph representations. Our dataset enables the development of strong models for the interpretation of SVCs while skipping the time-consuming dense data annotation. We evaluate our model on both synthetic and manually annotated data and show the transferability of synthetic to real via various metrics, given the presented application. Here, we evaluate that this proof of concept is possible to some extend and lay down a solid baseline for this task. We discuss the limitations of our approach for further improvements. Our utilized metrics can be used as a tool for future comparisons in this domain. To enable further research on this task, the dataset is publicly available at https://bit.ly/3jN1pJJ

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