%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Speech balloon contour classification in comics
%A Christophe Rigaud
%A Dimosthenis Karatzas
%A Jean-Christophe Burie
%A Jean-Marc Ogier
%B 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition
%D 2013
%F Christophe Rigaud2013
%O DAG; 600.056
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%X Comic books digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding create a variety of new applications, including mobile reading and data mining. Document understanding in this domain is challenging as comics are semi-structured documents, combining semantically important graphical and textual parts. In this work we detail a novel approach for classifying speech balloon in scanned comics book pages based on their contour time series.