On 16 January 2026, Mohammad Minouei successfully defended his PhD entitled ‘Structural Information Extraction from Document Images: Addressing Challenges in Layout Analysis, Table Detection, and Classification’.

The doctoral thesis was carried out in the Augmented Vision department at DFKI under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker.

The examination committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (RPTU), Prof. Dr. Faisal Shafait (NUST) and Prof. Dr. Leo Van Waveren (RPTU).