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New COTe score offers robust evaluation for Document Layout Analysis models

Researchers have introduced the COTe score, a new framework designed to more accurately evaluate Document Layout Analysis (DLA) models. Unlike traditional metrics that are ill-suited for the 2D nature of printed media, COTe focuses on the semantic structure of content. This new metric, along with the Structural Semantic Unit (SSU) labeling approach, aims to provide more robust and comparable performance measurements for DLA models. Case studies and evaluations on three datasets demonstrated that COTe offers more nuanced insights into model failures than standard metrics like F1, even when dealing with differing granularities between predictions and ground truth. AI

IMPACT This new evaluation metric could lead to more accurate and reliable Document Layout Analysis models, improving how digital documents are processed and understood.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jonathan Bourne, Mwiza Simbeye, Ishtar Govia ·

    The COTe score: A decomposable framework for evaluating Document Layout Analysis models

    arXiv:2603.12718v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Document Layout Analysis (DLA) is the process by which a page is parsed into meaningful elements, often using machine learning models. Typically, the quality of a model is judged using general machine vision metrics such as IoU,…