Journal
2013 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 1240-1244Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.251
Keywords
active contour; multi-scale; non-closed contour; speech balloon; comics
Funding
- European Doctorate founds of the University of La Rochelle
- European Regional Development Fund
- region Poitou-Charentes (France)
- General Council of Charente Maritime (France)
- town of La Rochelle (France)
- Spanish research projects [TIN2011-24631, RYC-2009-05031]
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Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding would enable a variety of new applications, including content-based retrieval and content re-targeting. Document understanding in this domain is challenging as comics are semi-structured documents, combining semantically important graphical and textual parts. Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for closed and non-closed speech balloon localization in scanned comic book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comic book understanding. The approach is compared with existing methods for closed balloon localization found in the literature and results are presented.
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