PT Unknown
AU Christophe Rigaud
   Dimosthenis Karatzas
   Joost Van de Weijer
   Jean-Christophe Burie
   Jean-Marc Ogier
TI Automatic text localisation in scanned comic books
BT Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
PY 2013
BP 814
EP 819
DE Text localization; comics; text/graphic separation; complex background; unstructured document
AB Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comics book understanding. We focus on speech text as it is semantically important and represents the majority of the text present in comics. The approach is compared with existing methods of text localization found in the literature and results are presented.
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