Bubble detection

• Main AI capacities
• Bubble with stroke.
• Coloured and transparent bubble.
• Elliptical, spiky and implied bubble.
• Pixel-level contour detection.
  
• Decomposition of multi-bubble and joint bubble
• Combined with panel detection
  
• Ordering of bubbles in panels.
• Combined with character recognition
• Recognition of the bubble tail position and direction.
  
• Association of the bubble tail with the comic character.
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Panel detection

• Main AI capacities
• Panel with a wide range of stroke and resilient to small openings.
• Elliptical or implied panel.
• Isolated drawing with space encompassing.  
• Panel order computation.
  
• Algorithm robustness
• Overflowing panel from the page.
  
• Incrusted and unclosed panel.
  

Text extraction

• Main AI capacities
• Text in speech and context bubbles.
• Superimposed  text on  drawings (e.g. onomatopoeia).
  
• Text in illustrations (e.g. store names, vehicle number).
  
• Text bloc identification in multibubble.
  
• Supported langages
• Support for all Latin and Cyrillic languages.
  
• Support for the main Asian vertical and horizontal texts (JP, KO…).
  
• Detection and removal of furiganas in Japanese
• Other languages can be implemented on demand.
  
• R&D in progress
• Bold and italic word tagging.
• Onomatopoeia tagging and text recognition.
  
• Refined Kanji recognition in Japanese manga.

Handwritten & cursive text recognition

• Main AI capacities
• Latin and Asian handwritten and cursive texts.
• Capacity to switch to "training mode".
  (→ for an non recognised handwriting)
  
• Inside or outside speech bubbles.
  
• Outline curve text superimposed on drawing.
  
• Linguistics post treatments
• Post-OCR correction.
  
• Spell checking with dictionaries.
  (→ to correct imprecisely written words)
  
• R&D in progress
• Curved text.
• Japanese text within illustrations.

Long page support ^{(→ webtoon)}

• Preprocessing implemented
• Mono or sliced page image.
• Recomposition of cut elements in a single "long" vertical page.
  

Double page detection

• AI capacities not yet implemented in Geo Comix webapp
• Graphic analysis of facing pages to detect double pages.
• Ordering of panels and bubbles considering the spreed.
  

Character recognition

• Main AI capacities
• Graphical pattern of character.
• Face localisation in the identified character pattern.
  
• Propagation of anonymous identification in visual narrative type of documents such as comics, manga or webtoon.
  
• R&D in progress
• Character identification with real names.
• Propagation of anonymous identification to non recurrent character and across albums.
  

Onomatopea & titration recognition

Emotion  recognition

• R&D in progress
• Face expression analysis.
• Bubble type recognition.
• Graphical pattern conveying emotion.
• Character gender recognition.