The notable developments in pervasive and wireless technology enable us to collect enormous sensor data from each individual. With contextaware technologies, these data can be summarized into context data which support each individual’s reflection process of one’s own memory and communication process between the individuals. To improve reflection and communication, this paper proposes an automa...

Today cartoon images take more portion of digital multimedia than ever as we notice this phenomenon in the entertainment business. With the explosive proliferation of cartoon image contents on the Internet, we seem to need a classification system to categorize these cartoon images. This paper presents a new approach of cartoon image classification based on cartoonists. The proposed cartoon imag...

In this paper, we introduce the cartoon faces in the wild (IIIT-CFW) database and associated problems. This database contains 8,928 annotated images of cartoon faces of 100 public figures. It will be useful in conducting research on spectrum of problems associated with cartoon understanding. Note that to our knowledge, such realistic and large databases of cartoon faces are not available in the...

This paper proposes a novel method to retrieve cartoon character images in a database or network. In this method, partial features of an cartoon image, defined as Regions and Aspects, are used as keys to identify cartoon characters. The similarities between a query cartoon character image and the images in the database are computed by using these features. Based on the similarities, the cartoon...