Manga (Japanese comics) are popular worldwide. However, current e-manga archives offer
very limited search support, ie, keyword-based search by title or author. To make the manga …

Context The field of comic recognition (CR) has gained significant attention in recent years
due to the growing popularity of digital comics. CR involves the automatic identification and …

Vision-language models have recently evolved into versatile systems capable of high
performance across a range of tasks, such as document understanding, visual question …

Visual narrative is often a combination of explicit information and judicious omissions,
relying on the viewer to supply missing details. In comics, most movements in time and …

We develop a method for the automated detection and segmentation of speech balloons in
comic books, including their carrier and tails. Our method is based on a deep convolutional …

Comics and manga are one of the most important forms of publication and play a major role
in spreading culture all over the world. In this paper we focus on balloons and their …

Document analysis is an active field of research, which can attain a complete understanding
of the semantics of a given document. One example of the document understanding process …

Comic book image analysis methods often propose multiple algorithms or models for
multiple tasks like panel and character (body and face) detection, balloon segmentation, text …

Manga, Japanese comics, are globally popular, and the digital manga (e-manga) market is
growing year by year. E-manga has a limitation in its search methodology: it is currently …

Comic document image analysis is now an active field of research in both academia and
industry. However, comic document image processing research suffers due to its inherent …