Presentation 2016-03-07
Text region detection and recognition in manga
Yuji Aramaki, Yusuke Matsui, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we develop a method to detect and recognize text regions in manga. The proposed detection method combined classifications for connected components and regions. To improve recognition accuracy, we remove noise objects before conducting optical character recognition (OCR) and correct misrecognition with text corpus after the OCR. We also constructed a large-scale dataset of text regions for learning and evaluation. We conducted experiments using our dataset, and the results showed our detection and recognition methods are more effective than previous methods. We expect our method can be applied for a lot of applications such as search by text or automatic translation of manga.
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Keyword(in English) manga / text regions / detection / OCR / sentence correction
Paper # IMQ2015-41,IE2015-140,MVE2015-68
Date of Issue 2016-02-29 (IMQ, IE, MVE)

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Committee IE / IMQ / MVE / CQ
Conference Date 2016/3/7(2days)
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Chair Seishi Takamura(NTT) / Yuukou Horita(Univ. of Toyama) / Minoru Kobayashi(Meiji Univ.) / Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.)
Vice Chair Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NHK) / Kenji Sugiyama(Seikei Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Chiba Univ.) / Yoshinari Kameda(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC)
Secretary Takayuki Hamamoto(NTT) / Atsuro Ichigaya(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Kenji Sugiyama(Canon) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Nagoya Univ.) / Yoshinari Kameda(Keio Univ.) / Takanori Hayashi(Osaka Univ.) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NTT)
Assistant Keita Takahashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Kei Kawamura(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Shinichiro Saito(Sony) / Masaru Tsuchida(NTT) / Reiko Ueoka(Kyushu Univ.) / Masaaki Iiyama(Kyoto Univ.) / Atsunobu Kimura(NTT) / Masahiro Yamamoto(OKI) / Bo GU(Waseda Univ.) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Image Media Quality / Technical Committee on Multimedia and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Text region detection and recognition in manga
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Keyword(1) manga
Keyword(2) text regions
Keyword(3) detection
Keyword(4) OCR
Keyword(5) sentence correction
1st Author's Name Yuji Aramaki
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
2nd Author's Name Yusuke Matsui
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
3rd Author's Name Toshihiko Yamasaki
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
4th Author's Name Kiyoharu Aizawa
4th Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
Date 2016-03-07
Paper # IMQ2015-41,IE2015-140,MVE2015-68
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) IMQ-493,IE-494,MVE-495
Page pp.pp.73-78(IMQ), pp.73-78(IE), pp.73-78(MVE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-02-29 (IMQ, IE, MVE)