Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Arindam Chowdhury

Lovekesh Vig

Monika Sharma

Rohit Rahul

Gautam Shroff

Ashwin Srinivasan

Gunjan Sehgal

Animesh

Shikha Gupta

Samarth Mittal

Vishwanath Doreswamy

Animesh,

This disclosure relates generally to intelligent visual reasoning over graphical illustrations using a MAC unit. Prior arts use visual attention to map particular words in a question to specific areas in an image to memorize the corresponding answers, thereby resulting in a limited capability to answer questions of a specific type. The present disclosure incorporates the MAC unit to enable reasoning capabilities and accordingly attend to an area in the image to find the answer. The present disclosure therefore allows generalizing over a possible set of questions with varying complexities so that an unseen question can also be answered correctly based on the reasoning methods that it has learned. The system and method of the present disclosure can be used for understanding of visual information when processing documents like business reports, research papers, consensus reports etc. containing charts and reduce the time spent in manual analysis.

Intelligent visual reasoning over graphical illustrations using a MAC unit

This disclosure relates to digitization of industrial inspection sheets. Digital scanning of paper based inspection sheets is a common process in factory settings. The paper based scans have data pertaining to millions of faults detected over several decades of inspection. The technical challenge ranges from image preprocessing and layout analysis to word and graphic item recognition. This disclosure provides a visual pipeline that works in the presence of both static and dynamic background in the scans, variability in machine template diagrams, unstructured shape of graphical objects to be identified and variability in the strokes of handwritten text. The pipeline incorporates a capsule and spatial transformer network based classifier for accurate text reading and a customized Connectionist Text Proposal Network (CTPN) for text detection in addition to hybrid techniques for arrow detection and dialogue cloud removal.

Digitization of industrial inspection sheets by inferring visual relations

Various methods are using SQL based data extraction for extracting relevant information from images. These are rule based methods of generating SQL-Query from NL, if any new English sentences are to be handled then manual intervention is required. Further becomes difficult for non-technical user. A system and method for extracting relevant from the images using a conversational interface and database querying have been provided. The system eliminates noisy effects, identifying the type of documents and detect various entities for diagrams. Further a schema is designed which allows an easy to understand abstraction of the entities detected by the deep vision models and the relationships between them. Relevant information and fields can then be extracted from the document by writing SQL queries on top of the relationship tables. A natural language based interface is added so that a non-technical user, specifying the queries in natural language, can fetch the information effortlessly.

Method and system for information extraction from document images using conversational interface and database querying

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for end-to-end handwritten text recognition using neural networks. Most existing hybrid architectures involve high memory consumption and large number of computations to convert an offline handwritten text into a machine readable text with respective variations in conversion accuracy. The method combine a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) based encoder unit and decoder unit to map a handwritten text image to a sequence of characters corresponding to text present in the scanned handwritten text input image. The deep CNN is used to extract features from handwritten text image whereas the RNN based encoder unit and decoder unit is used to generate converted text as a set of characters. The disclosed method requires less memory consumption and less number of computations with better conversion accuracy over the existing hybrid architectures.

Systems and methods for end-to-end handwritten text recognition using neural networks

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Arindam Chowdhury