For provenance research and art market studies, auction catalogs are an essential resource to trace specific objects over time and space. While historical auction catalogs follow established domain conventions, their internal formatting remains highly variable, and their large-scale analysis is currently restricted by...
Mathias Zinnen, Alisha Mund, Sabine Lang et al.· 0 citations
The central finding is that robust output control is as important as model choice for robust reasoning over multilingual educational and scientific images with dense text, diagrams, charts, tables, formulas, and units.
This work demonstrates that a VLM-based pipeline can successfully unlock historical auction catalogs for large-scale automated analysis, and benchmark the methods across different deployment modes ranging from commercial providers to locally hosted, quantized models.
Mathias Zinnen, Alisha Mund, Sabine Lang et al.· 0 citations
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