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The detection of comic panels is a crucial funcionality in assistance systems for iconotextual media analysis. Most systems use recursive cuts based on image projections or background segmentation to find comic panels. Usually this limits the applicability to comics with white background and free space between the panels. In this paper, we introduce a set of new features that allow for a detection of panels by their outline instead of the separating space. Our method is therefore more tolerant against structured backgrounds.
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Stommel, M., Merhej, L.I., Müller, M.G. (2012). Segmentation-Free Detection of Comic Panels. In: Bolc, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Chmielewski, L.J., Wojciechowski, K. (eds) Computer Vision and Graphics. ICCVG 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33564-8_76
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