Abstract
We have created Manga109, a dataset of a variety of 109 Japanese comic books publicly available for use for academic purposes. This dataset provides numerous comic images but lacks the annotations of elements in the comics that are necessary for use by machine learning algorithms or evaluation of methods.
In this paper, we present the metadata of Manga109 including the annotations of “frame”, “text”, and “character”.
And then, we analyze the metadata to reveal the tendency of drawing of every author or genre in Japanese comics.