@InProceedings{ChristopheRigaud2013,
author="Christophe Rigaud
and Dimosthenis Karatzas
and Joost Van de Weijer
and Jean-Christophe Burie
and Jean-Marc Ogier",
title="An active contour model for speech balloon detection in comics",
booktitle="12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition",
year="2013",
pages="1240--1244",
abstract="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 retargeting. 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.",
optnote="DAG; CIC; 600.056",
optnote="exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2260), last updated on Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:10:51 +0100",
issn="1520-5363",
doi="10.1109/ICDAR.2013.251",
file=":http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RKW2013a.pdf:PDF"
}