Sublinear information bottleneck based two-stage deep learning approach to genealogy layout recognition.

Abstract

As an important part of human cultural heritage, the recognition of genealogy layout is of great significance for genealogy research and preservation. This paper proposes a novel method for genealogy layout recognition using our introduced sublinear information bottleneck (SIB) and two-stage deep learning approach. We first proposed an SIB for extracting relevant features from the input image, and then uses the deep learning classifier SIB-ResNet and object detector SIB-YOLOv5 to identify and localize different components of the genealogy layout. The proposed method is evaluated on a dataset of genealogy images and achieves promising results, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods. This work demonstrates the potential of using information bottleneck and deep learning object detection for genealogy layout recognition, which can have applications in genealogy research and preservation.