ArbDR

Cascaded Robust Rectification for Arbitrary Document Images

Official implementation of "Cascaded Robust Rectification for Arbitrary Document Images"

Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2026 🏆

Authors: Chaoyun Wang, Quanxin Huang, I-Chao Shen, Takeo Igarashi, Nanning Zheng, Caigui Jiang

Institutes: Xi'an Jiaotong University, The University of Tokyo

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📢 News

• [2026.02.27] 📊 We have released the paper results! You can download them via Baidu Cloud (Access Code: mdqd).
• [2026.01.01] 🎉 Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)!
• [Update] Code is being organized and will be fully released soon.

🚀 Introduction

Document rectification in real-world scenarios poses significant challenges due to extreme variations in camera perspectives and physical distortions. Driven by the insight that complex transformations can be decomposed and resolved progressively, we introduce a novel multi-stage framework that progressively reverses distinct distortion types in a coarse-to-fine manner. Specifically, our framework first performs a global affine transformation to correct perspective distortions arising from the camera's viewpoint, then rectifies geometric deformations resulting from physical paper curling and folding, and finally employs a content-aware iterative process to eliminate fine-grained content distortions. To address limitations in existing evaluation protocols, we also propose two enhanced metrics: layout-aligned OCR metrics (AED/ACER) for a stable assessment that decouples geometric rectification quality from the layout analysis errors of OCR engines, and masked AD/AAD (AD-M/AAD-M) tailored for accurately evaluating geometric distortions in documents with incomplete boundaries. Extensive experiments show that our method establishes new state-of-the-art performance on multiple challenging benchmarks, yielding a substantial reduction of 14.1%--34.7% in the AAD metric and demonstrating superior efficacy in real-world applications.

📝 Citation

If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:

@article{wang2025cascaded,
  title={Cascaded Robust Rectification for Arbitrary Document Images},
  author={Wang, Chaoyun and Huang, Quanxin and Shen, I and Igarashi, Takeo and Zheng, Nanning and Jiang, Caigui and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.23150},
  year={2025}
}