Presentation 2010-02-15
Feature Evaluation by Moe-Factor of ANIME Characters Images and its Application
Hirokazu KAWATANI, Hiroki KASHIWAZAKI, Yoshiaki TAKAI, Nami TAKAI,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, Japanese animation works(ANIME)draw much attention as one of major digital contents in Japan. Particularly, a certain group of animation works called "Moe-ANIME" goes on increasing. In addition, to use a term of Moe, which means an inner situation where someone sets especial affections on the favorite cartoon character, is getting popular socially. Development of Moe-rerated product and its market becomes very active. Now it's a key issue to meet the needs that we can easily search our favorite ANIME characters in a large database according to the individual criteria of Moe. In this paper, we present a feature extraction and Moe-factor evaluation method for a face image of Moe-ANIME cartoon characters. As an application of Moe feature analysis, we show an image data retrieval system for Moe-ANIME character image database.
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Keyword(in English) ANIME character / Moe-factor / layer division / feature extraction / image retrieval
Paper # ITS2009-56,IE2009-150
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Conference Date 2010/2/8(1days)
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Title (in English) Feature Evaluation by Moe-Factor of ANIME Characters Images and its Application
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Keyword(1) ANIME character
Keyword(2) Moe-factor
Keyword(3) layer division
Keyword(4) feature extraction
Keyword(5) image retrieval
1st Author's Name Hirokazu KAWATANI
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate school of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University()
2nd Author's Name Hiroki KASHIWAZAKI
2nd Author's Affiliation Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
3rd Author's Name Yoshiaki TAKAI
3rd Author's Affiliation Information Initiative Center, Hokkaido University
4th Author's Name Nami TAKAI
4th Author's Affiliation Hokkaido Information University
Date 2010-02-15
Paper # ITS2009-56,IE2009-150
Volume (vol) vol.109
Number (no) 414
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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