Semi-Supervised Learning through Adversary Networks for Baseline Detection

The aim of this paper is to propose a new strategy adapted to the semantic segmentation of document images in order to extract baselines. Inspired by the work of Grüning [7], we used a convolutional model with residual layers enriched by an attention mechanism, called ARU-Net, a post-processing for the agglomeration of predictions and a data augmentation to enrich the database. Then, to consolidate the ARU-Net and help explicitly model dependencies between feature maps, we added a module of "Squeeze and Excitation" as proposed by Hu et al. [9]. Finally, to exploit the amount of unrated data available, we used a semi-supervised learning, based on ARUNet, through the use of adversary networks. This approach has shown some interesting predictive qualities, compared to Grüning's work, with easier processing and less task-specific error correction. The resulting performance improvement is a success.