Papers by Yanzhi Liu
Exploring In-Image Machine Translation with Real-World Background (2025.findings-acl)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | Existing models for IIMT focus on simplified scenarios, which is far from reality and impractical for applications in the real world. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that separates the background and text-image from the source image and performs translation on the text- image directly. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves translation quality and visual effect in complex scenarios . it separates background and text-image from source image and performs translation on the text- image directly . |
PRIM: Towards Practical In-Image Multilingual Machine Translation (2025.emnlp-main)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | Current research on in-image machine translation focuses on synthetic data with simple background, single font, fixed text position, and bilingual translation. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end model to handle the challenge of practical conditions in PRIM . they annotate a real-world one-line text image with complex background, fonts, diverse text positions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves translation quality and visual effect compared to other models. |
Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on CFMME: A Comprehensive Chinese Financial Multimodal Evaluation Dataset (2026.acl-long)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have expanded capabilities beyond text understanding . a novel Chinese financial multimodal evaluation benchmark is used to evaluate LVLM capabilities . |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese financial multimodal evaluation benchmark to evaluate LVLMs' capabilities . the model has an overall accuracy of 66.11% and an average score of 77.18 . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves an overall accuracy of 66.11% on the question answering task and an average score of 77.18 on detection, recognition, and information extraction tasks. |
In-Image Neural Machine Translation with Segmented Pixel Sequence-to-Sequence Model (2023.findings-emnlp)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to convert images containing texts from one language to another. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end model instead of the traditional cascade methods which use optical character recognition followed by neural machine translation and text rendering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms both cascade methods and current model in translation quality and robustness across various dimensions. |
Beyond Literal Mapping: Benchmarking and Improving Non-Literal Translation Evaluation (2026.acl-long)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced machine translation (MT) a meta-evaluation dataset focused on non-literal translations is lacking . experimental results show the inaccuracies of traditional MT metrics and the limitations of LLM-as-a-Judge. |
| Approach: | They propose a meta-evaluation framework that leverages sub-agents to evaluate machine translation metrics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the knowledge cutoff and score inconsistency problem. |