IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
SCIA'05 Proceedings of the 14th Scandinavian conference on Image Analysis
An OCR-Enabled digital comic books viewer
ICCHP'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part I
Robust frame and text extraction from comic books
GREC'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Graphics Recognition: new trends and challenges
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In many countries, "comic books" are very popular and are sometimes are referred to as the ninth art. The most common form of access to comics still remains the paper form. Despite its reading comfort, this media does not fit the use the navigational needs of a number of people with special needs, for example: motor-impaired people, low-sighted people and mobile users.In this paper, we explore how an electronic version of comics can be accessed optimally using a computer based interface. Among the reading modes supported, an automated mode provides a segmentation-based detection of panel boundaries and their display in the right reading order. This enables accessibility with minimal user interaction and maximal image size. Validation was carried out in a number of operational contexts such as a PC controlled through voice, a TV controlled through a remote and a mobile device.