• System Description

System Methodology...

An original comic page will be processed by the system function Panel Identification, it identifies the area of each panel, cuts it out, orders them and finally outputs to PDA for viewing

orignal ecomic cut into panels and view single panel on pda

Panel Identification

  1. Project vertical, horizontal and tilted lines on the image and set them as background stripes if they have cuspate histograms Tilted line is projected every degree on the image.

    2. Lines projection :project lines on comic page and check histogram different

  2. Erase wrong detected stripes by checking its gradient with the surroundings. For wrong stripe, the percentage of pixels with similar color is over 85%, so it is erased.

    3. Check correctness : check stripe correctness

  3. Divide the image into different subregions with the stripes.
  4. Do step 1-3 recursively on each subregion until no more stripes are detected.

    5. Subregion division : divide into subregions

  5. The final subregions are defined as panels and ordered.

    6. Subregion defines : subregions defined

Test Result

By applying the methodology into the following resources :

  1. Number of comic volumes : 5
  2. Number of Pages : 74
  3. Size of each page : 670 x 970 pixels
  4. Total number of panels : 799

We have the following result :

  1. Number of panels recognized : 678
  2. Accuracy : 0.85
  3. False Alarm : 79
  4. Percentage : 0.10
  5. Average time per page : 25 seconds