Rethinking Image-based Table Recognition Using Weakly Supervised Methods

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07641v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:03:57 GMT
• Title: Rethinking Image-based Table Recognition Using Weakly Supervised Methods
• Authors: Nam Tuan Ly, Atsuhiro Takasu, Phuc Nguyen, and Hideaki Takeda
• Abstract summary: We propose a weakly supervised model named WSTabNet for table recognition that relies only on HTML (or) code-level annotations of table images. To facilitate table recognition with deep learning, we create and release WikiTableSet, the largest publicly available table image-based dataset built from Wikipedia.
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• Abstract: Most of the previous methods for table recognition rely on training datasets containing many richly annotated table images. Detailed table image annotation, e.g., cell or text bounding box annotation, however, is costly and often subjective. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised model named WSTabNet for table recognition that relies only on HTML (or LaTeX) code-level annotations of table images. The proposed model consists of three main parts: an encoder for feature extraction, a structure decoder for generating table structure, and a cell decoder for predicting the content of each cell in the table. Our system is trained end-to-end by stochastic gradient descent algorithms, requiring only table images and their ground-truth HTML (or LaTeX) representations. To facilitate table recognition with deep learning, we create and release WikiTableSet, the largest publicly available image-based table recognition dataset built from Wikipedia. WikiTableSet contains nearly 4 million English table images, 590K Japanese table images, and 640k French table images with corresponding HTML representation and cell bounding boxes. The extensive experiments on WikiTableSet and two large-scale datasets: FinTabNet and PubTabNet demonstrate that the proposed weakly supervised model achieves better, or similar accuracies compared to the state-of-the-art models on all benchmark datasets.

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