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A deep learning-based compatibility score for reconstruction of strip-shredded text documents

Thiago M. Paixão, Rodrigo F. Berriel, Maria C. S. Boeres, Claudine Badue, Alberto F. De Souza and Thiago Oliveira-Santos

The use of paper-shredder machines (mechanical shredding) to destroy documents can be illicitly motivated when the purpose is hiding evidence of fraud and other sorts of crimes. Therefore, reconstructing such documents is of great value for forensic investigation [...]

SIBGRAPI 2018 [pdf - INPE][IEEExplore]

Fast(er) Reconstruction of Shredded Text Documents via Self-Supervised Deep Asymmetric Metric Learning

Thiago M. Paixão, Rodrigo F. Berriel, Maria C. S. Boeres, Alessandro L. Koerich, Claudine Badue, Alberto F. De Souza and Thiago Oliveira-Santos

The reconstruction of shredded documents consists in arranging the pieces of paper (shreds) in order to reassemble the original aspect of such documents. This task is particularly relevant for supporting forensic investigation as documents may contain criminal evidence [...] (To appear in the proceedings of the CVPR 2020)

[arXiv]