Names: Dunst, Alexander, 1980–editor.| Laubrock, Jochen, editor.| Wildfeuer, Janina, 1984–
editor. Title: Empirical comics research: digital, multimodal, and cognitive methods/edited by …

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 …

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 books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization
combined with subsequent comic book understanding would enable a variety of new …

The popularity of storing, distributing and reading comic books electronically has made the
task of comics analysis an interesting research problem. Different work have been carried …

In this thesis, we review, highlight and illustrate the challenges related to comic book image
analysis in order to give to the reader a good overview about the last research progress in …

This chapter addresses the problem of detecting visual and textual entities using pattern
recognition algorithms, and understanding comics' content by automatically improving the …

The authors present in this paper an effective Java imple-mentation of the concept
immediate successors calculation. It is based on the lattice Java library, developed by K …

The paper explores the difference between parallel and serial queries to an NP-complete
oracle, SAT, from the perspective of functions with a limited number of output bits. For …

Chamber leak test is one of the most important tests that are performed on plasma reactors
for etch, CVD, etc. Optical Emission Spectroscopy OES is a powerful non-invasive tool to …