Comics is a medium constituted of images combined with text and other visual information in order to narrate a story. Nowadays, comic books are a widespread cultural expression all over the world. The market of comics continues to grow, for example, the market in Japan is about 4.25 billion USD in 2015. Moreover, from the research point of view, comics images are attractive targets because the structure of a comics page includes various elements (such as panels, speech balloons, captions, leading characters, and so on), the drawing of which depends on the style of the author and presents a large variability. Therefore, comics image analysis is not a trivial problem and is still immature compared with other kinds of image analysis.
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to:
- – Comics Image Processing
- – Comics Analysis and Understanding
- – Comics Recognition
- – Comics Retrieval and Spotting
- – Comics Enrichment
- – Born digital Comics
- – Reading Behavior Analysis of Comics
- – Comics Generation
- – Copy Protection – Fraud Detection
- – Physical/Digital Comics Interfaces
- – Cognitive Processing and Comprehension of Comics
- Linguistics Analysis of Comics
Workshop Paper submission deadline: August 27, 2018
Camera ready papers due: October 12, 2018
Author Registration: October 12, 2018
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Authors of selected papers of MMM 2019 will be invited to publish extended versions in a journal special issue.
To evaluate the proposed works, participants will be able to use the following datasets that are publicly available. Researchers can request to download them at each website.
- – eBDtheque consists of 100 images with ground truth for panels, speech balloons, tails, text lines, leading characters.
- – Manga109 consists of over 20 thousand images of 109 volumes (21,142 images).
Workshop organizers:
- – Jean-Christophe Burie (University of La Rochelle, France), General Co-Chair
- – Motoi Iwata (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan), General Co-Chair
- – Yusuke Matsui (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), General Co-Chair
- – Alexander Dunst (Paderborn University, Germany), Program Co-Chair
- – Miki Ueno (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan), Program Co-Chair
- – Tien-Tsin Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Program Co-Chair