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SUMMARY:DH Seminar Lecture - Comics analysis and Indexing
DTSTART:20190425T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jean-Christophe Burie de l'Université de la Rochelle - 
 France\nDirecteur Adjoint du Laboratoire L3i\nResponsable pédagogique de 
 la section Apprentissage du Master ICONE  \nAbstract:\nBorn in the 19th c
 entury\, "comics" (Bande Dessinée in French) is a visual medium used to e
 xpress ideas via images\, often combined with text and graphics.\n"Comics"
   is often considered as the 9th art\, the sequential art\, disseminated 
 through the progress of the printing press throughout the world in newspap
 ers\, books and magazines. Nowadays\, the development of the new technolog
 ies and the World Wide Web is giving birth to a new form of paperless comi
 cs that takes advantage of the virtual world freedom.\nHowever\, tradition
 al comics still represent an important cultural heritage in many countries
 . They have not yet received the same level of attention as music\, cinema
  or\nliterature about their adaptation to the digital format. Using inform
 ation technologies with "classic" comics would facilitate the exploration 
 of digital libraries\, faster theirs translations\,\nallow augmented readi
 ng (improvement of content during reading\, on demand and personalized)\, 
 speech playback for the visually impaired\, etc.\nCultural heritage preser
 vation organizations such as the CIBDI in Angoulême  (French acronym for
  International City of Comic books and Images)\,\nthe Kyoto International 
 Manga Museum and the digitalcomicmuseum.com website in USA have already di
 gitized hundreds of comic albums that some are now in the public domain.\n
 Despite the expending market place of digital comics\, few researches have
  been carried out to take advantage of the added value provided by these n
 ew media.\nThe difficulty of analyzing the "Bandes Dessinées"\, comics an
 d mangas comes from the large diversity of contents.\nIndeed\, each author
  has his own style both in terms of drawing and representation of texts. D
 eveloping methods for extracting and indexing comics content is a signific
 ant challenge.\nIn this talk\, I will present the different strategies use
 d to extract the elements of comic strips such as panels\, speech balloons
 \, text\, characters and links that may exist between these elements.
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