Chris Tensmeyer

Senior Research Scientist

Maryland

Chris joined Adobe Research in 2018 as a Research Scientist after performing a Summer research internship. He graduated with a PhD in computer science from Brigham Young University and developed new deep learning models to solve document analysis problems as part of his dissertation.  His research interests span a variety of document intelligence topics, including layout analysis and generation, HCI for document consumption, text recognition, and semantic understanding of documents.  If you have interest in any of these topics or adjacent ones, please feel free to reach out!

Scholar Profile

Publications

FlexDoc: Flexible Document Adaptation through Optimizing both Content and Layout

Jiang, Yue., Lutteroth, Christof., Jain, Rajiv., Tensmeyer, Chris., Manjunatha, Varun., Stuerzlinger, Wolfgang., Morariu, Vlad. (Sep. 2, 2024)

2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

DocumentCLIP: Linking Figures and Main Body Text in Reflowed Documents

Liu, Fuxiao., Tan, Hao., Tensmeyer, Chris. (Apr. 26, 2024)

ArXiv

Learning the Visualness of Text Using Large Vision-Language Models

Verma, Gaurav., Rossi, Ryan., Tensmeyer, Chris., Gu, Jiuxiang., Nenkova, Ani. (Dec. 1, 2023)

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

DocDancer: Authoring Ultra-responsive Documents with Layout Generation

Chen, Yuexi., Liu, Leo., Tensmeyer, Chris., Elmqvist, Niklas., Morariu, Vlad. (Oct. 3, 2023)

2023 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Improving Cross-Domain Detection with Self-Supervised Learning

Li, Kai., Wigington, Curtis., Tensmeyer, Chris., Morariu, Vlad., Zhao, Handong., Manjunatha, Varun., Barmpalios, Nikolaos., Fu, Yun. (Jun. 18, 2023)

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops

Web Table Formatting Affects Readability on Mobile Devices

Tensmeyer, Chris., Bylinskii, Zoya., Cai, Tianyuan., Miller, Dave., Nenkova, Ani., Niklaus, Aleena., Wallace, Shaun. (Apr. 30, 2023)

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023

MGDoc: Pre-training with Multi-granular Hierarchy for Document Image Understanding

Wang, Zilong., Gu, Jiuxiang., Tensmeyer, Chris., Barmpalios, Nikolaos., Nenkova, Ani., Sun, Tong., Shang, Jingbo., Morariu, Vlad. (Dec. 1, 2022)

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

TELIN: Table Entity LINker for Extracting Leaderboards from Machine Learning Publications

Yang, Sean., Tensmeyer, Chris., Wigington, Curtis. (Nov. 1, 2022)

Proceedings of the first Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications

End-to-end Document Recognition and Understanding with Dessurt

Davis, Brian., Morse, Bryan., Tensmeyer, Chris., Price, Brian., Wigington, Curtis., Morariu, Vlad. (Oct. 23, 2022)

TiE: Text in Everything (ECCV 2022 Workshop)

TiGAN: Text-Based Interactive Image Generation and Manipulation

Zhou, Yufan., Zhang, Ruiyi., Gu, Jiuxiang., Tensmeyer, Chris., Yu, Tong., Chen, Changyou., Xu, Jinhui., Sun, Tong. (Jun. 28, 2022)

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Towards Language-Free Training for Text-to-Image Generation

Zhou, Yufan., Zhang, Ruiyi., Chen, Changyou., Li, Chunyuan., Tensmeyer, Chris., Yu, Tong., Gu, Jiuxiang., Xu, Jinhui., Sun, Tong. (Jun. 19, 2022)

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Visual FUDGE: Form Understanding via Dynamic Graph Editing

Davis, Brian., Morse, Bryan., Price, Brian., Tensmeyer, Chris., Wigington, Curtis. (Sep. 8, 2021)

ICDAR 2021

ICPR 2020 – Competition on Harvesting Raw Tables from Infographics

Tensmeyer, Chris., Shekhar, Sumit., Singh, Hrituraj., Davila, Kenny., Setlur, Srirangaraj., Govindaraju, Venu. (Feb. 21, 2021)

ICPR 2021

Text and Style Conditioned GAN for Generation of Offline Handwriting Lines

Davis, Brian., Tensmeyer, Chris., Price, Brian., Wigington, Curtis., Morse, Bryan., Jain, Rajiv. (Sep. 7, 2020)

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)

Cross-Domain Document Object Detection: Benchmark Suite and Method

Li, Kai., Wigington, Curtis., Tensmeyer, Chris., Zhao, Handong., Barmpalios, Nikolaos., Morariu, Vlad., Manjunatha, Varun., Sun, Tong., Fu, Yun. (Jun. 22, 2020)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Historical Document Image Binarization – A Review

Tensmeyer, Chris., Martinez, Tony. (May. 16, 2020)

Springer Nature Computer Science

Training Full-Page Handwritten Text Recognition Models without Annotated Line Breaks

Tensmeyer, Chris., Wigington, Curtis. (Nov. 11, 2019)

Oral

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)

Generating Realistic Binarization Data with Generative Adversarial Networks

Tensmeyer, Chris., Brodie, Mike., Saunders, Daniel., Martinez, Tony. (Nov. 11, 2019)

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)

Robust Keypoint Regression

Tensmeyer, Chris., Martinez, Tony. (Nov. 9, 2019)

Long Oral

Workshop on Machine Learning (WML) at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)

Deep Splitting and Merging for Table Structure Decomposition

Tensmeyer, Chris., Morariu, Vlad., Price, Brian., Cohen, Scott., Martinez, Tony. (Sep. 23, 2019)

Oral

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)

ICDAR 2019 Competition on Harvesting Raw Tables from Infographics (CHART-Infographics)

Davila, Kenny., Kota, Bhargava., Setlur, Srirangraj., Govindraju, Venu., Tensmeyer, Chris., Shekhar, Sumit., Chaudhry, Ritwick. (Sep. 20, 2019)

2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

Deep Visual Template-Free Form Parsing

Davis, Brian., Morse, Bryan., Cohen, Scott., Price, Brian., Tensmeyer, Chris. (Sep. 20, 2019)

Oral

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)

Start, Follow, Read: End-to-End Full-Page Handwriting Recognition

Wigington, Curtis., Tensmeyer, Chris., Davis, Brian., Barrett, Bill., Price, Brian., Cohen, Scott. (Sep. 8, 2018)

European Conference on Computer Vision 2018

Language Model Supervision for Handwriting Recognition Model Adaptation

Tensmeyer, Chris., Wigington, Curtis., Davis, Brian., Stewart, Seth., Martinez, Tony., Barrett, William. (Aug. 1, 2018)

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

PageNet: Page Boundary Extraction in Historical Handwritten Documents

Tensmeyer, Chris., Davis, Brian., Wigington, Curtis., Lee, Iain., Barrett, William. (Sep. 10, 2017)

International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing