Abdullah Ibne Hanif Arean

Alhamdulillah, I’m very happy to share that our paper "Stroke-Level Connectivity Verification: Grounding Vision-Language Models Against Topology Hallucination in Diagram Understanding" has been accepted at ICDAR 2026 (Rank A Conference), and this is my first publication as first author as well as my first submission after joining The KOW Company as an AI Researcher. ICDAR (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition) is a leading global conference in document analysis and recognition, organized under the IAPR, bringing together researchers and practitioners working on OCR, document understanding, handwriting recognition, and related areas. I would like to sincerely thank my supervisor and boss Md Ashikur Rahman bhaiya for his continuous guidance, trust, and mentorship, and Niamul Hassan as my co-author for his invaluable support throughout this journey. I am also deeply grateful to our visionary CEO, Kowser Ahmed bhaiya, for creating an environment where cutting-edge AI research and impactful publication are truly encouraged. The KOW Company AI team combines creative expertise with smart technology and scalable production pipelines to help brands and studios generate high-quality product visuals, 3D assets, and AI-powered imagery at scale, making it a fantastic place to do research that goes from paper to real-world deployment. InshaAllah, I hope this will be the first of many impactful AI research contributions from our team at The KOW Company. #ICDAR2026 #DocumentAnalysis #VisionLanguageModels #DiagramUnderstanding #AIResearch