TY  - CONF
AU  - Christophe Rigaud
AU  - Dimosthenis Karatzas
AU  - Joost Van de Weijer
AU  - Jean-Christophe Burie
AU  - Jean-Marc Ogier
A2  - VISAPP
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Automatic text localisation in scanned comic books
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
SP  - 814
EP  - 819
KW  - Text localization
KW  - comics
KW  - text/graphic separation
KW  - complex background
KW  - unstructured document
N2  - 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.
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RKW2013b.pdf
N1  - DAG; CIC; 600.056
ID  - Christophe Rigaud2013
ER  -