Manga109

Selected Publications

This is a selection of academic papers on the media processing of manga at the Aizawa Yamasaki Matsui Laboratory.

- Hikaru Ikuta
- Leslie Wöhler
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Statistical characteristics of comic panel viewing timesScientific Reports2023 vol. 13, no. 1, p. 20291, November 2023, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-47120-w.
- paper
- Yingxuan Li
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
- Yusuke Matsui
Manga109Dialog A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker DetectionarXiv2023
- paper
- Jeonghun Baek
- Yusuke Matsui
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
COO: Comic Onomatopoeia Dataset for Recognizing Arbitrary or Truncated TextsECCV2022
- paper
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
- Azuma Fujimoto
- Atsushi Otsubo
- Toru Ogawa
- Yusuke Matsui
- Koki Tsubota
- Hikaru Ikuta
Building a Manga Dataset "Manga109" with Annotations for Multimedia ApplicationsIEEE MultiMedia2020 vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 8-18, 1 April-June 2020, doi: 10.1109/MMUL.2020.2987895.
- paper
- Koki Tsubota
- Daiki Ikami
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Synthesis of Screentone Patterns of Manga CharactersIEEE ISM2019, short Dec. 9-11, 2019, San Diego
- paper
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Building a Manga Dataset Manga109 for Multimedia Applications (Keynote talk)IEEE MMSP2019 Sep. 27-30, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Rei Narita
- Keigo Hirakawa
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Optical Flow based Line Drawing Frame Interpolation using Distance Transform to Support InbetweeningsIEEE ICIP2019 WQ.L1.3, Sep.22-25, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803506
- paper
- Toru Ogawa
- Atsushi Otsubo
- Rei Narita
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Object Detection for Comics using Manga109 AnnotationsarXiv2018
- paper
- Koki Tsubota
- Toru Ogawa
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Adaptation of Manga Face Representation for Accurate ClusteringACM SIGGRAPH Asia2018, poster Dec. 4-7, 2018, Tokyo
- paper
- Rei Narita
- Koki Tsubota
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Sketch-based Manga Retrieval using Deep FeaturesICDAR, Workshop MANPU2017 pp.49-53, November 10, 2017, Kyoto, Japan
- paper
- Paulina Hensman
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
cGAN-based Manga Colorization Using a Single Training ImageICDAR, Workshop MANPU2017 pp.72-77, November 10, 2017, Kyoto, Japan
- paper
- arXiv
- Azuma Fujimoto
- Toru Ogawa
- Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Manga109 Dataset and Creation of MetadataInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition workshop MANPU (The First International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding)2016
- paper
- Yusuke Matsui
- Kota Ito
- Yuji Aramaki
- Azuma Fujimoto
- Toru Ogawa
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Sketch-based Manga Retrieval using Manga109 DatasetMultimedia Tools and Applications, Springer
- paper
- Kota Ito
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Interactive Region Segmentation for MangaInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition2016 (accepted)
- Toru Ogawa
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Sketch Simplification by Classifying StrokesInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition2016 (accepted)
- Yusuke Matsui
- Takaaki Shiratori
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
DrawFromDrawings: 2D Drawing Assistance via Stroke Interpolation with a Sketch DatabaseIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics2016
- paper
- Yuji Aramaki
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Text detection in manga by combining connected-component-based and region-based classificationsIEEE International Conference on Image Processing2016
- paper
- dataset
- Yusuke Matsui
- Kota Ito
- Yuji Aramaki
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Sketch-based Manga Retrieval using Manga109 DatasetarXiv2015
- paper
- Yuji Aramaki
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Interactive Segmentation for Manga using Lossless Thinning and Coarse LabelingAPSIPA ASC2015
- paper
- Yusuke Matsui
Challenge for Manga Processing: Sketch-based Manga RetrievalACM Multimedia Doctoral Symposium2015
- paper
- Samu Kovanen
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
A Layered Method For Determining Manga Text Bubble Reading OrderIEEE International Conference on Image Processing2015
- Kota Ito
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Separation of Manga Line Drawings and ScreentonesEurographics Short Paper2015
- code
- Kazuhiro Sato
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Reference-based Manga Colorization by Graph Correspondence Using Quadratic ProgrammingACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Brief2014
- paper
- Yusuke Matsui
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
- Yushi Jing
Sketch2Manga: Sketch-based Manga RetrievalIEEE International Conference on Image Processing2014
- Yuji Aramaki
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Interactive Segmentation for MangaACM SIGGRAPH Poster2014
- Daiki Matsumoto
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
- Takanori Katagiri
IllustStyleMap: Visualization of Illustrations based on Similarity of Drawing Style of AuthorsACM SIGGRAPH Poster2014
- paper
- Zhipeng Wu
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
MangaWall: Generating manga pages for real-time applicationsIEEE Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing2014
- paper
- Yusuke Matsui
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Kiyoharu Aizawa
Interactive Manga RetargetingACM SIGGRAPH Poster2011
- paper