Systems and methods for identifying and segmenting objects from images

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• generating, utilizing a preprocessing module, a resized historical document image from a source historical document image;
• determining, utilizing a region-proposal module comprising a combination of two region proposal models, one or more regions of interest in the resized historical document image;
• and
• generating, utilizing a prediction module to process pixels of the resized historical document image indicated by the one or more regions of interest, a predicted object defined by a classification and a set of bounding box coordinates within the resized historical document image.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

• generate, utilizing a preprocessing module comprising a learned image scaler, a resized historical document image from a source historical document image;
• determine, utilizing a region-proposal module, one or more regions of interest in the resized historical document image;
• and
• generate, utilizing a prediction module to process pixels of the resized historical document image indicated by the one or more regions of interest, a predicted object defined by a classification and a set of bounding box coordinates within the resized historical document image.