Edwin Carlinet

Analyse structurelle de l’influence du bruit sur l’arbre alpha

By Baptiste Esteban, Guillaume Tochon, Edwin Carlinet, Didier Verna

2022-06-14

In 29e colloque sur le traitement du signal et des images

Abstract L’arbre alpha est une représentation hiérarchique utilisée dans divers traitements d’une image tels que la segmentation ou la simplification. Ces traitements sont néanmoins sensibles au bruit, ce qui nécessite parfois de les adapter. Or, l’influence du bruit sur la structure de l’arbre alpha n’a été que peu étudiée dans la littérature. Ainsi, nous proposons une étude de l’impact du bruit en fonction de son niveau sur la structure de l’arbre.

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Estimation of the noise level function for color images using mathematical morphology and non-parametric statistics

By Baptiste Esteban, Guillaume Tochon, Edwin Carlinet, Didier Verna

2022-04-08

In Proceedings of the 26th international conference on pattern recognition

Abstract Noise level information is crucial for many image processing tasks, such as image denoising. To estimate it, it is necessary to find homegeneous areas within the image which contain only noise. Rank-based methods have proven to be efficient to achieve such a task. In the past, we proposed a method to estimate the noise level function (NLF) of grayscale images using the tree of shapes (ToS). This method, relying on the connected components extracted from the ToS computed on the noisy image, had the advantage of being adapted to the image content, which is not the case when using square blocks, but is still restricted to grayscale images.

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A benchmark of named entity recognition approaches in historical documents

By Nathalie Abadie, Edwin Carlinet, Joseph Chazalon, Bertrand Duménieu

2022-04-07

In Proceedings of the 15th IAPR international workshop on document analysis system

Abstract Named entity recognition (NER) is a necessary step in many pipelines targeting historical documents. Indeed, such natural language processing techniques identify which class each text token belongs to, e.g. “person name”, “location”, “number”. Introducing a new public dataset built from 19th century French directories, we first assess how noisy modern, off-the-shelf OCR are. Then, we compare modern CNN- and Transformer-based NER techniques which can be reasonably used in the context of historical document analysis.

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Max-tree computation on GPUs

By Nicolas Blin, Edwin Carlinet, Florian Lemaitre, Lionel Lacassagne, Thierry Géraud

2022-03-09

In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Abstract In Mathematical Morphology, the max-tree is a region-based representation that encodes the inclusion relationship of the threshold sets of an image. This tree has been proven useful in numerous image processing applications. For the last decade, works have been led to improve the building time of this structure; mixing algorithmic optimizations, parallel and distributed computing. Nevertheless, there is still no algorithm that takes benefit from the computing power of the massively parallel architectures.

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Introducing the boundary-aware loss for deep image segmentation

By Minh Ôn Vũ Ngọc, Yizi Chen, Nicolas Boutry, Joseph Chazalon, Edwin Carlinet, Jonathan Fabrizio, Clément Mallet, Thierry Géraud

2021-11-28

In Proceedings of the 32nd british machine vision conference (BMVC)

Abstract Most contemporary supervised image segmentation methods do not preserve the initial topology of the given input (like the closeness of the contours). One can generally remark that edge points have been inserted or removed when the binary prediction and the ground truth are compared. This can be critical when accurate localization of multiple interconnected objects is required. In this paper, we present a new loss function, called, Boundary-Aware loss (BALoss), based on the Minimum Barrier Distance (MBD) cut algorithm.

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ICDAR 2021 competition on historical map segmentation

By Joseph Chazalon, Edwin Carlinet, Yizi Chen, Julien Perret, Bertrand Duménieu, Clément Mallet, Thierry Géraud, Vincent Nguyen, Nam Nguyen, Josef Baloun, Ladislav Lenc, Pavel Král

2021-05-17

In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on document analysis and recognition (ICDAR’21)

Abstract This paper presents the final results of the ICDAR 2021 Competition on Historical Map Segmentation (MapSeg), encouraging research on a series of historical atlases of Paris, France, drawn at 1/5000 scale between 1894 and 1937. The competition featured three tasks, awarded separately. Task 1 consists in detecting building blocks and was won by the L3IRIS team using a DenseNet-121 network trained in a weakly supervised fashion. This task is evaluated on 3 large images containing hundreds of shapes to detect.

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Revisiting the Coco panoptic metric to enable visual and qualitative analysis of historical map instance segmentation

By Joseph Chazalon, Edwin Carlinet

2021-05-17

In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on document analysis and recognition (ICDAR’21)

Abstract Segmentation is an important task. It is so important that there exist tens of metrics trying to score and rank segmentation systems. It is so important that each topic has its own metric because their problem is too specific. Does it? What are the fundamental differences with the ZoneMap metric used for page segmentation, the COCO Panoptic metric used in computer vision and metrics used to rank hierarchical segmentations? In this paper, while assessing segmentation accuracy for historical maps, we explain, compare and demystify some the most used segmentation evaluation protocols.

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Vectorization of historical maps using deep edge filtering and closed shape extraction

By Yizi Chen, Edwin Carlinet, Joseph Chazalon, Clément Mallet, Bertrand Duménieu, Julien Perret

2021-05-17

In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on document analysis and recognition (ICDAR’21)

Abstract Maps have been a unique source of knowledge for centuries. Such historical documents provide invaluable information for analyzing the complex spatial transformation of landscapes over important time frames. This is particularly true for urban areas that encompass multiple interleaved research domains (social sciences, economy, etc.). The large amount and significant diversity of map sources call for automatic image processing techniques in order to extract the relevant objects under a vectorial shape.

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Combining deep learning and mathematical morphology for historical map segmentation

By Yizi Chen, Edwin Carlinet, Joseph Chazalon, Clément Mallet, Bertrand Duménieu, Julien Perret

2021-02-16

In Proceedings of the IAPR international conference on discrete geometry and mathematical morphology (DGMM)

Abstract The digitization of historical maps enables the study of ancient, fragile, unique, and hardly accessible information sources. Main map features can be retrieved and tracked through the time for subsequent thematic analysis. The goal of this work is the vectorization step, i.e., the extraction of vector shapes of the objects of interest from raster images of maps. We are particularly interested in closed shape detection such as buildings, building blocks, gardens, rivers, etc.

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Filtres connexes multivariés par fusion d’arbres de composantes

By Edwin Carlinet, Thierry Géraud

2019-06-14

In Proceedings of the 27st symposium on signal and image processing (GRETSI)

Abstract Les arbres de composantes fournissent une représentation d’images de haut niveau, hiérarchisée et invariante par contraste, adaptée à de nombreuses tâches de traitement d’image. Pourtant, ils sont mal définis sur des données multivariées, telle que celles des images couleur, des images multimodalités, des images multibande, etc. Les solutions courantes, telles que le traitement marginal, ou l’imposition d’un ordre total sur les données, ne sont pas satisfaisantes et génèrent de nombreux problèmes, tels que des artefacts visuels, la perte d’invariances, etc.

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