Automatic Text Localisation in Scanned Comic Books

Christophe Rigaud, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Joost van de Weijer, Jean Christophe Burie, Jean-Marc Ogier

2013

Abstract

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rigaud C., Karatzas D., Weijer J., Burie J. and Ogier J. (2013). Automatic Text Localisation in Scanned Comic Books . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-47-1, pages 814-819. DOI: 10.5220/0004301308140819

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp13,
author={Christophe Rigaud and Dimosthenis Karatzas and Joost van de Weijer and Jean Christophe Burie and Jean-Marc Ogier},
title={Automatic Text Localisation in Scanned Comic Books},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={814-819},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004301308140819},
isbn={978-989-8565-47-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Automatic Text Localisation in Scanned Comic Books
SN - 978-989-8565-47-1
AU - Rigaud C.
AU - Karatzas D.
AU - Weijer J.
AU - Burie J.
AU - Ogier J.
PY - 2013
SP - 814
EP - 819
DO - 10.5220/0004301308140819