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Herman Dubois
dblp:249/2800
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Information extraction and text analysis · 100% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Image and video processing · 50% Geometric modeling and processing · 50% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis › document analysis
document parsing |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Automated Engineering Assistant: Learning Parsers for Technical Drawings · AAAI 2021 |
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis › document understanding
table understanding |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Automated Engineering Assistant: Learning Parsers for Technical Drawings · AAAI 2021 |
Image and video processing
document image analysis |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Automated Engineering Assistant: Learning Parsers for Technical Drawings · AAAI 2021 |
Geometric modeling and processing › spatial reasoning › geometric reasoning › line drawing interpretation
engineering drawing analysis |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Automated Engineering Assistant: Learning Parsers for Technical Drawings · AAAI 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
symbolic methods · 1.0similarity search · 1.0neural methods · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | An Automated Engineering Assistant: Learning Parsers for Technical DrawingsabstractManufacturing companies rely on technical drawings to develop new designs or adapt designs to customer preferences. The database of historical and novel technical drawings thus represents the knowledge that is core to their operations. With current methods, however, utilizing these drawings is mostly a manual and time consuming effort. In this work, we present a software tool that knows how to interpret various parts of the drawing and can translate this information to allow for automatic reasoning and machine learning on top of such a large database of technical drawings. For example, to find erroneous designs, to learn about patterns present in successful designs, etc. To achieve this, we propose a method that automatically learns a parser capable of interpreting technical drawings, using only limited expert interaction. The proposed method makes use of both neural methods and symbolic methods. Neural methods to interpret visual images and recognize parts of two-dimensional drawings. Symbolic methods to deal with the relational structure and understand the data encapsulated in complex tables present in the technical drawing. Furthermore, the output can be used, for example, to build a similarity based search algorithm. We showcase one deployed tool that is used to help engineers find relevant, previous designs more easily as they can now query the database using a partial design instead of through limited and tedious keyword searches. A partial design can be a part of the two-dimensional drawing, part of a table, part of the contained textual information, or combinations thereof. Dries Van Daele, Nicholas Decleyre, Herman Dubois, Wannes Meert |
AAAI | 3 |