Panel Extraction and Plane Background Estimation for Motion Comic Creation of Manga Image

Abstract

We propose methods of panel extraction and plane background estimation for motion comic creation of a manga image. In the panel extraction, the speech balloon extraction method proposed by the authors is utilized for sharpening a dividing line of the panels. Frequency of use of background techniques is investigated, and it indicates that the frequency of the plane background is high. The targets of the plane background techniques are blank space, solid, and screen tone, and the plane backgrounds is estimated in this paper. In the experiment, recall values of the panel extraction and plane background estimation were 88.6% and 93.5%.