eBDtheque: a representative database of comics

Clément Guérin (1) , Christophe Rigaud (1) , Antoine Mercier (1) , Farid Ammar-Boudjelal (1) , Karell Bertet (1) , Alain Bouju (1) , Jean-Christophe Burie (1) , Georges Louis (1) , Jean-Marc Ogier (1) , Arnaud Revel (1)

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

We present eBDtheque, a database of various comic book images and their ground truth for panels, balloons and text lines plus semantic annotations. The database consists of a hundred pages of various comic book albums, Franco-Belgian, American comics and mangas. Additionally, we present the piece of software used to establish the ground truth and a tool to validate results against this ground truth. Everything is publicly available for scientific use on http://ebdtheque.univ-lr.fr.

Mots clés: scientific comics collection; ground truth; semantic annotation; image; database

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Clément Guérin, Christophe Rigaud, Antoine Mercier, Farid Ammar-Boudjelal, Karell Bertet, et al.. eBDtheque: a representative database of comics. 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Aug 2013, Washington D.C., United States. pp.1177-1181. ⟨hal-00914860⟩