TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic preview generation of comic episodes for digitized comic search
AU - Hoashi, Keiichiro
AU - Ono, Chihiro
AU - Ishii, Daisuke
AU - Watanabe, Hiroshi
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This research proposes a novel method to present "thumbnails" of episodes of digitized comics, in order to improve the efficiency of comic search. Comic episode thumbnails are generated based on image analysis technologies developed especially for comic images. Namely, the following procedures are developed for our system: automatic comic frame segmentation, text balloon extraction, and a linear regression based model to calculate the importance score of each extracted frame. The system then selects frames from each episode with high importance score, and aligns the selected frames to create the episode thumbnail, which is presented to the system user as a compact preview of the episode. User experiments conducted with actual Japanese comic images prove that the proposed method significantly decreases the time necessary to search for specific episodes from a large scaled comic data collection.
AB - This research proposes a novel method to present "thumbnails" of episodes of digitized comics, in order to improve the efficiency of comic search. Comic episode thumbnails are generated based on image analysis technologies developed especially for comic images. Namely, the following procedures are developed for our system: automatic comic frame segmentation, text balloon extraction, and a linear regression based model to calculate the importance score of each extracted frame. The system then selects frames from each episode with high importance score, and aligns the selected frames to create the episode thumbnail, which is presented to the system user as a compact preview of the episode. User experiments conducted with actual Japanese comic images prove that the proposed method significantly decreases the time necessary to search for specific episodes from a large scaled comic data collection.
KW - Algorithms
KW - Experimentation
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U2 - 10.1145/2072298.2072047
DO - 10.1145/2072298.2072047
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84455168892
SN - 9781450306164
T3 - MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops
SP - 1489
EP - 1492
BT - MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops
T2 - 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2011, MM'11
Y2 - 28 November 2011 through 1 December 2011
ER -