Color Based Comic Strip Character Recognition
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This paper presents a method to locate and identify characters within a comic strip. As many comics use distinct color schemes to represent each character, the developed method uses color histograms to determine the presence and location of characters in a frame. To provide a baseline for comparison, SIFT features were also used to identify the characters. It was found that the SIFT algorithm is accurate but frequently is unable to detect the presence of a character while the color histogram method detects most characters but is inaccurate in its
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