Speech balloon contour classification in comics

Christophe Rigaud (1) , Jean-Christophe Burie (1) , Jean-Marc Ogier (1) , Dimosthenis Karatzas (2)

1 L3I - Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction - EA 2118
2 CVC

Comic books digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding create a variety of new applications, including mobile reading and data mining. Document understand- ing 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.

Domaines: Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Christophe Rigaud, Jean-Christophe Burie, Jean-Marc Ogier, Dimosthenis Karatzas. Speech balloon contour classification in comics. 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Aug 2013, United States. ⟨hal-00879820⟩