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Structure Analysis on Common Plot in Four-Scene Comic Story Dataset

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MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2019)

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Comic is the one of the most attractive creative contents and it contains both components of image and words features. Especially, I have been focused in four-scene comics which can represent stories with the simple and clear structure. One of my aims of the researches is to promote collaboration between creators and artificial intelligence. To contribute for the field, I have proposed the original four-scene comics dataset with creative process and meta-data. According to the existing comics, I defined the typical patterns of structure and contents. I provided the character and several information to keep balance of common twenty scenarios based on two types of structure for ten plots. The dataset contains 100 kinds of four-scene comics to keep layer information and several annotations by five artists. Thus, it can be analyzed various expressions in common scenarios. In this research, I show the procedure of creating the dataset. Then, I describe the features of the dataset and results of computational experiment.

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Acknowlegement

I thank to the comic artists and Spoma Inc. to corporate with this research. This work is supported by ACT-I, JST. Grant Number: JPMJPR17U4. A part of this work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C), 26330282.

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  1. Information and Media Center, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, 441-8580, Japan

    Miki Ueno

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  1. Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioannis Kompatsiaris

  2. EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Benoit Huet

  3. Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Vasileios Mezaris

  4. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Cathal Gurrin

  5. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Wen-Huang Cheng

  6. Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stefanos Vrochidis

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Ueno, M. (2019). Structure Analysis on Common Plot in Four-Scene Comic Story Dataset. In: Kompatsiaris, I., Huet, B., Mezaris, V., Gurrin, C., Cheng, WH., Vrochidis, S. (eds) MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11296. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05716-9_56

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