Robust frame and text extraction from comic books

Authors:
Christophe Rigaud;Norbert Tsopze;Jean-Christophe Burie;Jean-Marc Ogier
Affiliations:
Laboratory L3i, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France;Laboratory L3i, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France,LAMOCA - Department of Computer Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon;Laboratory L3i, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France;Laboratory L3i, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
Venue:
GREC'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Graphics Recognition: new trends and challenges
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Comic books constitute an important heritage in many countries. Nowadays, digitization allows to search directly from content instead of metadata only (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. Only frame and speech balloon extraction have been experimented in the case of simple page structure. In fact, the page structure depends on the author which is why many different structures and drawings exist. Despite the differences, drawings have a common characteristic because of design process: they are all surrounded by a black line. In this paper, we propose to rely on this particularity of comic books to automatically extract frame and text using a connected-component labeling analysis. The approach is compared with some existing methods found in the literature and results are presented.