TY  - CONF
AU  - Christophe Rigaud
AU  - Dimosthenis Karatzas
AU  - Joost Van de Weijer
AU  - Jean-Christophe Burie
AU  - Jean-Marc Ogier
A2  - ICDAR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - An active contour model for speech balloon detection in comics
BT  - 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
SP  - 1240
EP  - 1244
N2  - 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.
SN  - 1520-5363
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RKW2013a.pdf
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2013.251
N1  - DAG; CIC; 600.056
ID  - Christophe Rigaud2013
ER  -