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ICDAR 2021 Competition on Document Visual Question Answering

Authors : Rubèn Tito, Minesh Mathew, C. V. Jawahar, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas

Published in: Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this report we present results of the ICDAR 2021 edition of the Document Visual Question Challenges. This edition complements the previous tasks on Single Document VQA and Document Collection VQA with a newly introduced on Infographics VQA. Infographics VQA is based on a new dataset of more than 5, 000 infographics images and 30, 000 question-answer pairs. The winner methods have scored 0.6120 ANLS in Infographics VQA task, 0.7743 ANLSL in Document Collection VQA task and 0.8705 ANLS in Single Document VQA. We present a summary of the datasets used for each task, description of each of the submitted methods and the results and analysis of their performance. A summary of the progress made on Single Document VQA since the first edition of the DocVQA 2020 challenge is also presented.

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Metadata
Title
ICDAR 2021 Competition on Document Visual Question Answering
Authors
Rubèn Tito
Minesh Mathew
C. V. Jawahar
Ernest Valveny
Dimosthenis Karatzas
Copyright Year
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86337-1_42

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