Speech balloon contour classification in comics

Text-Independent Speech Balloon Segmentation for Comics and Manga

An Automated Procedure for Word Balloon Placement in Cinema Comics

Comics has been studied for a long time, as they are the oldest genre of non-photorealistic rendering. Especially, it is a very interesting work to transform a video into a comics in an automatic manner. As a kind of sub-work for this, we introduce a method to automatically place word balloons in an image in this paper. It is not trivial to place the time-serial word balloons with keeping the r...

Extraction des bulles de bandes dessinées

Comics and manga are one of the most popular and familiar forms of graphic content over the world and play a major role in spreading country’s culture. Nowadays, massive digitization allow page-per-page mobile reading but we believe that other usages will be released in the near future. In this paper, we focus on speech balloon segmentation which is a key issue for text/graphic association in s...

Comics-Like Motion Depiction from Stereo

In this paper, we present an algorithm to depict motion in comics-like form, with an artistic drawn-like representation of the scene, from a stereo image sequence. The input to the algorithm is a natural scene, along with a user-defined set of parameters that define the tone and stylistic properties of the image to be produced. The algorithm uses a dense disparity map, computed from the input s...

Recognition of Panel Structure in Comic Images Using Faster R-cnn

For efficient e-comics creation, automatic extracting technique for comic components such as panel layout, speech balloon, and characters is necessary. In the conventional methods, comic components are extracted using geometrical characteristics such as line drawings or connected pixels. However, it is difficult to extract all comic components by focusing on a particular geometric feature, sinc...