Automatic Film Comic Generation Using iMap

Abstract

Film comic is created from animation movies by selecting important frames, trimming the frame images to fit into the panels of comic and placing speech balloons at appropriate positions on the panels. Conventional technologies aiming at automatically completing these tasks based on low level image features only fail to produce good results, because the detection of important frames and important areas in each frame requires the understanding of movie and image contents as well. We propose an iMap(informative Map) generating method based on viewers’ eye-tracking data and the feature of image for automatic creation of film comic.