%0 Conference Proceedings
%T An active contour model for speech balloon detection in comics
%A Christophe Rigaud
%A Dimosthenis Karatzas
%A Joost Van de Weijer
%A Jean-Christophe Burie
%A Jean-Marc Ogier
%B 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
%D 2013
%@ 1520-5363
%F Christophe Rigaud2013
%O DAG; CIC; 600.056
%O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2260), last updated on Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:10:51 +0100
%X 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.
%U http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RKW2013a.pdf
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2013.251
%P 1240-1244