Post-Processing Mask-Based Table Segmentation for Structural Coordinate Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21287v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:10:37 GMT
• Title: Post-Processing Mask-Based Table Segmentation for Structural Coordinate Extraction
• Authors: Suren Bandara,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel multi-scale signal-processing method for detecting table edges from table masks.<n>Row and column transitions are modeled as one-dimensional signals and processed using Gaussian convolution.<n>The method is robust to resolution variations through zero-padding and scaling strategies.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Structured data extraction from tables plays a crucial role in document image analysis for scanned documents and digital archives. Although many methods have been proposed to detect table structures and extract cell contents, accurately identifying table segment boundaries (rows and columns) remains challenging, particularly in low-resolution or noisy images. In many real-world scenarios, table data are incomplete or degraded, limiting the adaptability of transformer-based methods to noisy inputs. Mask-based edge detection techniques have shown greater robustness under such conditions, as their sensitivity can be adjusted through threshold tuning; however, existing approaches typically apply masks directly to images, leading to noise sensitivity, resolution loss, or high computational cost. This paper proposes a novel multi-scale signal-processing method for detecting table edges from table masks. Row and column transitions are modeled as one-dimensional signals and processed using Gaussian convolution with progressively increasing variances, followed by statistical thresholding to suppress noise while preserving stable structural edges. Detected signal peaks are mapped back to image coordinates to obtain accurate segment boundaries. Experimental results show that applying the proposed approach to column edge detection improves Cell-Aware Segmentation Accuracy (CASA) a layout-aware metric evaluating both textual correctness and correct cell placement from 67% to 76% on the PubLayNet-1M benchmark when using TableNet with PyTesseract OCR. The method is robust to resolution variations through zero-padding and scaling strategies and produces optimized structured tabular outputs suitable for downstream analysis.

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