Awesome Comics Understanding

This repository contains a curated list of research papers and resources focusing on Comics Understanding.

🔥 One missing piece in Vision and Language: A Survey on Comics Understanding 🔥

Authors: Emanuele Vivoli, Andrey Barsky, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Artemis Llabrés, Marco Bertini, Dimosthenis Karatzas

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📚 Table of Contents

Overview of Vision-Language Tasks of the Layers of Comics Understanding. The ranking is based on input and output modalities and dimensions, as illustrated in the paper.

Layers of Comics Understanding

Every survey worthy of the name includes illustrative visuals to enhance understanding. We've followed this approach by providing examples for each task in the Layer of Comics Understanding.
Go check every Layer's tasks image ⬇️.

Layer 1: Tagging and Augmentation

• Tagging

  

  • Image classification

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	TIP	Panel-Page-Aware Comic Genre Understanding	Xu, Chenshu et al.	📜 Paper
    2019	ICDAR Workshop	Analysis Based on Distributed Representations of Various Parts Images in Four-Scene Comics Story Dataset	Terauchi, Akira et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	TPAMI	Learning Consensus Representation for Weak Style Classification	Jiang, Shuhui et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	ICDAR	Comic Story Analysis Based on Genre Classification	Daiku, Yuki et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	ICDAR	Histogram of Exclamation Marks and Its Application for Comics Analysis	Hiroe, Sotaro et al.	📜 Paper
    2014	ACM Multimedia	Line-Based Drawing Style Description for Manga Classification	Chu, Wei-Ta et al.	📜 Paper

  • Emotion classification

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	MMM	Manga Text Detection with Manga-Specific Data Augmentation and Its Applications on Emotion Analysis	Yang, Yi-Ting et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	ICDAR	Competition on Multimodal Emotion Recognition on Comics Scenes	Nguyen, Nhu-Van et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2016	MANPU (ICPR)	Manga Content Analysis Using Physiological Signals	Sanches, Charles Lima et al.	📜 Paper
    2015	IIAI-AAI	Relation Analysis between Speech Balloon Shapes and Their Serif Descriptions in Comic	Tanaka, Hideki et al.	📜 Paper

  • Action Detection

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	Arxiv	MangaUB: A Manga Understanding Benchmark for Large Multimodal Models	Ikuta, Hikaru et al.	📜 Paper
    2024	MANPU (ICDAR)	ComicBERT: A Transformer Model and Pre-training Strategy for Contextual Understanding in Comics	Soykan, Gurkan et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	ICDAR	Multimodal Transformer for Comics Text-Cloze	Vivoli, Emanuele et al.	📜 Paper
    2020	Arxiv	A Comprehensive Study of Deep Video Action Recognition	Zhu, Yi et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	CVPR	The Amazing Mysteries of the Gutter: Drawing Inferences Between Panels in Comic Book Narratives	Iyyer, Mohit et al.	📜 Paper

  • Page Stream Segmentation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2022	ICPR	Semantic Parsing of Interpage Relations	Demirtaş, Mehmet Arif et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	LREC	Page Stream Segmentation with Convolutional Neural Nets Combining Textual and Visual Features	Wiedemann, Gregor et al.	📜 Paper
    2013	ICDAR	Document Classification and Page Stream Segmentation for Digital Mailroom Applications	Gordo, Albert et al.	📜 Paper

• Augmentation ( Image-2-Image )

  

  • Image Super-Resolution

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	MTA	Automatic Dewarping of Camera-Captured Comic Document Images	Garai, Arpan et al.	📜 Paper

  • Style Transfer

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	Arxiv	Inkn'hue: Enhancing Manga Colorization from Multiple Priors with Alignment Multi-Encoder VAE	Jiramahapokee, Tawin	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	IEEE Access	Robust Manga Page Colorization via Coloring Latent Space	Golyadkin, Maksim et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	TVCG	Shading-Guided Manga Screening from Reference	Wu, Huisi et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	Arxiv	DASS-Detector: Domain-Adaptive Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Face & Body Detection in Drawings	Topal, Barış Batuhan et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	CVPR	Generating Manga from Illustrations via Mimicking Manga Creation Workflow	Zhang, LM et al.*	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	CVPR	Unbiased Mean Teacher for Cross-domain Object Detection	Deng, Jinhong et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	CVPR	Encoding in Style: A StyleGAN Encoder for Image-to-Image Translation	Richardson, Elad et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	AAAI	MangaGAN: Unpaired Photo-to-Manga Translation Based on The Methodology of Manga Drawing	Su, Hao et al.	📜 Paper
    2019	ISM	Synthesis of Screentone Patterns of Manga Characters	Tsubota, K. et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2018	SciVis	Color Interpolation for Non-Euclidean Color Spaces	Zeyen, Max et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	ACM-SIGGRAPH Asia	Comicolorization: Semi-automatic Manga Colorization	Furusawa, Chie et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	ICDAR	CGAN-Based Manga Colorization Using a Single Training Image	Hensman, Paulina et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	CVPR	Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks	Isola, Phillip et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	ACM-TG	Deep Extraction of Manga Structural Lines	Li, Chengze et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code

  • Vectorization

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	TCSVT	MARVEL: Raster Gray-level Manga Vectorization via Primitive-wise Deep Reinforcement Learning	H. Su et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2022	CVPR	Towards Layer-wise Image Vectorization	Ma, Xu et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	ACM-TG	Deep Extraction of Manga Structural Lines	Li, Chengze et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	TVCG	Manga Vectorization and Manipulation with Procedural Simple Screentone	Yao, Chih-Yuan et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ACM-SIGGRAPH	Depixelizing Pixel Art	Kopf, Johannes et al.	📜 Paper
    2003	N/A	Potrace : A Polygon-Based Tracing Algorithm	Selinger, Peter	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code

  • Depth Estimation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	CVPR Workshop	Dense Multitask Learning to Reconfigure Comics	Bhattacharjee, Deblina et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	WACV	Estimating Image Depth in the Comics Domain	Bhattacharjee, Deblina et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2022	CVPR	MulT: An End-to-End Multitask Learning Transformer	Bhattacharjee, Deblina et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code

Layer 2: Grounding, Analysis and Segmentation

• Grounding

  

  • Object detection

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	MANPU (ICDAR)	Comics Datasets Framework: Mix of Comics datasets for detection benchmarking	Vivoli, Emanuele et al.	📜 Paper
    2024	MANPU (ICDAR)	A Comprehensive Gold Standard and Benchmark for Comics Text Detection and Recognition	Gurkan Soykan et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	MMM	Manga Text Detection with Manga-Specific Data Augmentation and Its Applications on Emotion Analysis	Yang, \relax YT et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	CSNT	CPD: Faster RCNN-based DragonBall Comic Panel Detection	Sharma, Rishabh et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	IJDAR	BCBId: First Bangla Comic Dataset and Its Applications	Dutta, Arpita et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	ECCV	COO/ Comic Onomatopoeia Dataset for Recognizing Arbitrary or Truncated Texts	Baek, Jeonghun et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2019	ICDAR Workshop	What Do We Expect from Comic Panel Extraction?	Nguyen Nhu, Van et al.	📜 Paper
    2019	ICDAR Workshop	CNN Based Extraction of Panels/Characters from Bengali Comic Book Page Images	Dutta, Arpita et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	VCIP	Text Detection in Manga by Deep Region Proposal, Classification, and Regression	Chu, Wei-Ta et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	IWAIT	A Study on Object Detection Method from Manga Images Using CNN	Yanagisawa, Hideaki et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	IWAIT	A Study on Object Detection Method from Manga Images Using CNN	Yanagisawa, Hideaki et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	ICDAR	A Faster R-CNN Based Method for Comic Characters Face Detection	Qin, Xiaoran et al.	📜 Paper
    2016	IJCG	Text-Aware Balloon Extraction from Manga	Liu, Xueting et al.	📜 Paper
    2016	IJCNN	Line-Wise Text Identification in Comic Books: A Support Vector Machine-Based Approach	Pal, Srikanta et al.	📜 Paper
    2016	ICIP	Text Detection in Manga by Combining Connected-Component-Based and Region-Based Classifications	Aramaki, Yuji et al.	📜 Paper
    2015	ICIAP	Panel Tracking for the Extraction and the Classification of Speech Balloons	Jomaa, Hadi S. et al.	📜 Paper
    2012	DAS	Panel and Speech Balloon Extraction from Comic Books	Ho, Anh Khoi Ngo et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	IJI	Method for Real Time Text Extraction of Digital Manga Comic	Arai, Kohei et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ICDAR	Recognizing Text Elements for SVG Comic Compression and Its Novel Applications	Su, Chung-Yuan et al.	📜 Paper
    2010	ICIT	Method for Automatic E-Comic Scene Frame Extraction for Reading Comic on Mobile Devices	Arai, Kohei et al.	📜 Paper
    2009	IJHCI	Enhancing the Accessibility for All of Digital Comic Books	Ponsard, Christophe	📜 Paper

  • Character Re-Identification

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	Arxiv	Tails Tell Tales: Chapter-Wide Manga Transcriptions with Character Names	Ragav Sachdeva et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	NeurIPS	CoMix: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Task Comic Understanding	Emanuele Vivoli et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	CVPR	The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics	Sachdeva, Ragav et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	IET Image Processing	Toward Cross-Domain Object Detection in Artwork Images Using Improved YoloV5 and XGBoosting	Ahmad, Tasweer et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	Arxiv	Identity-Aware Semi-Supervised Learning for Comic Character Re-Identification	Soykan, Gürkan et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	ACM-MM Asia	Occlusion-Aware Manga Character Re-Identification with Self-Paced Contrastive Learning	Zhang, Ci-Yin et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	Arxiv	Unsupervised Manga Character Re-Identification via Face-Body and Spatial-Temporal Associated Clustering	Zhang, Z et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	ICIR	CAST: Character Labeling in Animation Using Self‐supervision by Tracking	Nir, Oron et al.	📜 Paper
    2020	ICPR	Dual Loss for Manga Character Recognition with Imbalanced Training Data	Li, Yonggang et al.	📜 Paper
    2020	ICML	A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations	Chen, Ting et al.	📜 Paper
    2015	ACPR	Similarity Learning Based on Pool-Based Active Learning for Manga Character Retrieval	Iwata, Motoi et al.	📜 Paper
    2014	DAS	A Study to Achieve Manga Character Retrieval Method for Manga Images	Iwata, M. et al.	📜 Paper
    2012	CVPR	Color Attributes for Object Detection	Khan, Fahad Shahbaz et al.	📜 Paper
    2012	ECCV	PHOG Analysis of Self-Similarity in Aesthetic Images	Redies, Christoph et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ICDAR	Similar Manga Retrieval Using Visual Vocabulary Based on Regions of Interest	Sun, Weihan et al.	📜 Paper

  • Sentence-based Grounding

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	AAAI	GroundVLP: Harnessing Zero-shot Visual Grounding from Vision-Language Pre-training and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection	Shen, Haozhan et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	ECCV	Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection	Liu, Shilong et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2020	CVPR Workshop	Exploring Phrase Grounding without Training: Contextualisation and Extension to Text-Based Image Retrieval	Parcalabescu, Letitia et al.	📜 Paper
    2019	AAAI	Zero-Shot Object Detection with Textual Descriptions	Li, Zhihui et al.	📜 Paper

• Analysis

  

  • Text-Character association

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	Arxiv	Tails Tell Tales: Chapter-Wide Manga Transcriptions with Character Names	Ragav Sachdeva et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	NeurIPS	CoMix: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Task Comic Understanding	Emanuele Vivoli et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	MANPU (ICDAR)	Spatially Augmented Speech Bubble to Character Association via Comic Multi-task Learning	Soykan, Gurkan et al.	📜 Paper 💻 Code
    2024	CVPR	The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics	Sachdeva, Ragav et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	arXiv	Manga109Dialog A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection	Li, Yingxuan et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	IIAI-AAI	Algorithms for Estimation of Comic Speakers Considering Reading Order of Frames and Texts	Omori, Yuga et al.	📜 Paper
    2019	IJDAR	Comic MTL: Optimized Multi-Task Learning for Comic Book Image Analysis	Nguyen, Nhu-Van et al.	📜 Paper
    2015	ICDAR	Speech Balloon and Speaker Association for Comics and Manga Understanding	Rigaud, Christophe et al.	📜 Paper

  • Panel Sorting

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2017	ICDAR	Story Pattern Analysis Based on Scene Order Information in Four-Scene Comics	Ueno, Miki et al.	📜 Paper

  • Dialog transcription

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	Arxiv	Tails Tell Tales: Chapter-Wide Manga Transcriptions with Character Names	Ragav Sachdeva et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	NeurIPS	CoMix: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Task Comic Understanding	Emanuele Vivoli et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	CVPR	The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics	Sachdeva, Ragav et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	arXiv	Manga109Dialog A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection	Li, Yingxuan et al.	📜 Paper

  • Translation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	ArXiv	Context-Informed Machine Translation of Manga using Multimodal Large Language Models	Lippmann, Philip et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2024	ArXiv	Large Language Models as Manga Translators: A Case Study	Zhishen Yang et al.	paper
    2024	ArXiv	Generating Visual Stories with Grounded and Coreferent Characters	Danyang Liu et al.	paper
    2024	ICKECS	The Future of Graphic Novel Translation: Fully Automated Systems	Sandeep Singh et al.	paper
    2024	ACM Multimedia	Zero-Shot Character Identification and Speaker Prediction in Comics via Iterative Multimodal Fusion	Yingxuan Li et al.	paper
    2023	ArXiv	Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation For Text Image Machine Translation	Cong Ma et al.	paper
    2020	ArXiv	Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation	Ryota Hinami et al.	paper
    2014	inTRAlinea	Visual adaptation in translated comics	Federico, Zanettin	paper

• Segmentation

  

  • Instance Segmentation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	AI4VA (ECCV)	Unlocking Comics: The AI4VA Dataset for Visual Understanding	Grönquist, Peter et al.	📜 Paper,👨‍💻 Code
    2024	ICDAR	Investigating Neural Networks and Transformer Models for Enhanced Comic Decoding	Kouletou, Eleanna et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	DataverseNL	The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) Project	Cohn, Neil	📜 Paper

Layer 3: Retrieval and Modification

• Retrieval

  

  • Image-Text Retrieval

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2014	DAS	A Study to Achieve Manga Character Retrieval Method for Manga Images	Iwata, M. et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ICDAR	Similar Manga Retrieval Using Visual Vocabulary Based on Regions of Interest	Sun, Weihan et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	CAVW	Comic Character Animation Using Bayesian Estimation	Chou, Yun-Feng et al.	📜 Paper
    2010	ICGC	Searching Digital Political Cartoons	Wu, Yejun	📜 Paper

  • Text-Image Retrieval

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2014	ICIP	Sketch2Manga: Sketch-based Manga Retrieval	Matsui, Yusuke et al.	📜 Paper

  • Composed Image Retrieval

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	Arxiv	MaRU: A Manga Retrieval and Understanding System Connecting Vision and Language	Shen, Conghao Tom et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	DICTA	ComicLib: A New Large-Scale Comic Dataset for Sketch Understanding	Wei, Xin et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	ICDAR	Manga-MMTL: Multimodal Multitask Transfer Learning for Manga Character Analysis	Nguyen, Nhu-Van et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	ICDAR	Sketch-Based Manga Retrieval Using Deep Features	Narita, Rei et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	Arxiv	A Neural Representation of Sketch Drawings	Ha, David et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	Arxiv	Style Transfer for Anime Sketches with Enhanced Residual U-net and Auxiliary Classifier GAN	Zhang, Lvmin et al.	📜 Paper
    2015	MM-TA	Sketch-Based Manga Retrieval Using Manga109 Dataset	Matsui, Yusuke et al.	📜 Paper

  • Personalized Image Retrieval

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2022	BMVC	Personalised CLIP or: How to Find Your Vacation Videos	Korbar, Bruno et al.	📜 Paper

• Modification

  

  • Image Impainting and Editing

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2022	ACM-UIST	CodeToon: Story Ideation, Auto Comic Generation, and Structure Mapping for Code-Driven Storytelling	Suh, Sangho et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	TVCG	Interactive Data Comics	Wang, Zezhong et al.	📜 Paper

Layer 4: Understanding

• Understanding

  

  • Visual Entailment

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links

  • Visual-Question Answer

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2022	WACV	Challenges in Procedural Multimodal Machine Comprehension: A Novel Way To Benchmark	Sahu, Pritish et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	Arxiv	Towards Solving Multimodal Comprehension	Sahu, Pritish et al.	📜 Paper
    2020	MDPI-AS	A Survey on Machine Reading Comprehension—Tasks, Evaluation Metrics and Benchmark Datasets	Zeng, Changchang et al.	📜 Paper
    2017	IIWAS	ComicQA: Contextual Navigation Aid by Hyper-Comic Representation	Sumi, Yasuyuki et al.	📜 Paper
    2016	MANPU (ICPR)	Designing a Question-Answering System for Comic Contents	Moriyama, Yukihiro et al.	📜 Paper

  • Visual-Dialog

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links

  • Visual Reasoning

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links

Layer 5: Generation and Synthesis

• Generation

  

  • Comics generation from other media

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	SIGCSE	Developing Comic-based Learning Toolkits for Teaching Computing to Elementary School Learners	Castro, Francico et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	THMS	Augmenting Conversations With Comic-Style Word Balloons	Zhang, H. et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	LACLO	Comics as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching	Lima, Antonio Alexandre et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	TVCG	ChartStory: Automated Partitioning, Layout, and Captioning of Charts into Comic-Style Narratives	Zhao, Jian et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	SIGCSE	Using Comics to Introduce and Reinforce Programming Concepts in CS1	Suh, Sangho et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	MM-CCA	Automatic Comic Generation with Stylistic Multi-page Layouts and Emotion-driven Text Balloon Generation	Yang, Xin et al.	📜 Paper
    2018	ACM	Comixify: Transform Video into a Comics	Pesko, Maciej et al.	📜 Paper
    2015	TOMM	Content-Aware Video2Comics With Manga-Style Layout	Jing, Guangmei et al.	📜 Paper
    2012	TOMM	Movie2Comics: Towards a Lively Video Content Presentation	Wang, Meng et al.	📜 Paper
    2012	ACM-TG	Automatic Stylistic Manga Layout	Cao, Ying et al.	📜 Paper
    2012	TOMM	Scalable Comic-like Video Summaries and Layout Disturbance	Herranz, Luis et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ACM-MM	Automatic Preview Generation of Comic Episodes for Digitized Comic Search	Hoashi, Keiichiro et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ISPACS	Automatic Comic Strip Generation Using Extracted Keyframes from Cartoon Animation	Tanapichet, Pakpoom et al.	📜 Paper
    2011	ICMLC	Caricaturation for Human Face Pictures	Chang, I-Cheng et al.	📜 Paper
    2010	SICE	Comic Live Chat Communication Tool Based on Concept of Downgrading	Matsuda, Misaki et al.	📜 Paper
    2010	CAIDCD	Research and Development of the Generation in Japanese Manga Based on Frontal Face Image	Xuexiong, Deng et al.	📜 Paper

  • Comics to Scene graph

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links

  • Image-2-Text Generation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	NeurIPS	Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions	Hu, Zhe et al.	📜 Paper
    2024	AI4VA (ECCV)	ComiCap: A VLMs pipeline for dense captioning of Comic Panels	Vivoli, Emanuele et al.	📜 Paper
    2024	ICDAR	Multimodal Transformer for Comics Text-Cloze	Vivoli, Emanuele et al.	📜 Paper
    2024	MANPU (ICDAR)	Toward Accessible Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers	Rigaud, Christophe et al.	📜 Paper
    2024	CVPR	The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics	Sachdeva, Ragav et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	Arxiv	Comics for Everyone: Generating Accessible Text Descriptions for Comic Strips	Ramaprasad, Reshma et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	ACL	Multimodal Persona Based Generation of Comic Dialogs	Agrawal, Harsh et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	Arxiv	M2C: Towards Automatic Multimodal Manga Complement	Guo, Hongcheng et al.	📜 Paper

  • Text-2-Image Generation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	ICCV	Diffusion in Style	Everaert, Martin Nicolas et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	MDPI-AS	A Study on Generating Webtoons Using Multilingual Text-to-Image Models	Yu, Kyungho et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	Arxiv	Generating Coherent Comic with Rich Story Using ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion	Jin, Ze et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	ISM	Conditional GAN for Small Datasets	Hiruta, Komei et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	NAACL	Improving Generation and Evaluation of Visual Stories via Semantic Consistency	Maharana, Adyasha et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	CoRR	Integrating Visuospatial, Linguistic and Commonsense Structure intoStory Visualization	Maharana, Adyasha et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	ICCC	A Deep Learning Pipeline for the Synthesis of Graphic Novels	Melistas, Thomas et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	Arxiv	ComicGAN: Text-to-Comic Generative Adversarial Network	Proven-Bessel, Ben et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2019	CVPR	StoryGAN: A Sequential Conditional GAN for Story Visualization	Li, Yitong et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2018	CVPR	Cross-Domain Weakly-Supervised Object Detection through Progressive Domain Adaptation	Inoue, Naoto et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	Arxiv	Towards the Automatic Anime Characters Creation with Generative Adversarial Networks	Jin, Yanghua et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code

  • Scene-graph Generation for captioning

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links

  • Sound generation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	ACM-TAC	AccessComics2: Understanding the User Experience of an Accessible Comic Book Reader for Blind People with Textual Sound Effects	Lee, Yun Jung et al.	📜 Paper
    2019	ACM-TG	Comic-Guided Speech Synthesis	Wang, Yujia et al.	📜 Paper

• Synthesis

  

  • 3D Generation from Images

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	ECCV	AnimeCeleb: Large-Scale Animation CelebHeads Dataset for Head Reenactment	Kim, Kangyeol et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	IJCAI	Collaborative Neural Rendering Using Anime Character Sheets	Lin, Zuzeng et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	CVPR	PAniC-3D: Stylized Single-view 3D Reconstruction from Portraits of Anime Characters	Chen, Shuhong et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	Arxiv	Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation	Sanghi, Aditya et al.	📜 Paper
    2021	N/A	Talking Head Anime from a Single Image 2: More Expressive	Khungurn, Pramook et al.	👨‍💻 Code
    2020	ICLR	U-GAT-IT: Unsupervised Generative Attentional Networks with Adaptive Layer-Instance Normalization for Image-to-Image Translation	Kim, Junho et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2017	3DV	3D Shape Reconstruction from Sketches via Multi-view Convolutional Networks	Lun, Zhaoliang et al.	📜 Paper

  • Video generation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2023	Arxiv	DreamVideo: High-Fidelity Image-to-Video Generation with Image Retention and Text Guidance	Wang, Cong et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	Arxiv	Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models	Gupta, Agrim et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	Arxiv	Motion-Conditioned Image Animation for Video Editing	Yan, Wilson et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	ICDAR	C2VNet: A Deep Learning Framework Towards Comic Strip to Audio-Visual Scene Synthesis	Gupta, Vaibhavi et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2016	TOMM	Dynamic Manga: Animating Still Manga via Camera Movement	Cao, Ying et al.	📜 Paper

  • Narrative-based complex scene generation

    Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
    2024	WACV	Synthesizing Coherent Story with Auto-Regressive Latent Diffusion Models	Pan, Xichen et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2023	CVPR	Make-A-Story: Visual Memory Conditioned Consistent Story Generation	Rahman, Tanzila et al.	📜 Paper
    2023	NeurIPS Workshop	Personalized Comic Story Generation	Peng, Wenxuan et al.	📜 Paper
    2022	ECCV	StoryDALL-E: Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Image Transformers for Story Continuation	Maharana, Adyasha et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2022	EMNLP	Character-Centric Story Visualization via Visual Planning and Token Alignment	Chen, Hong et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2021	NAACL	Improving Generation and Evaluation of Visual Stories via Semantic Consistency	Maharana, Adyasha et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
    2018	CoRR	StoryGAN: A Sequential Conditional GAN for Story Visualization	Yitong Li et al.	📜 Paper

Datasets & Benchmarks 📂📎

• Datasets

  Overview of Comic/Manga Datasets and Tasks

  This table provides an overview of Comic/Manga datasets and tasks, including information on their availability, published year, source, and properties such as languages, number of comic/manga books, and pages. The rows are repeated according to the supported tasks. Accessibility is indicated with ⚠️ for no longer existing datasets, ❌ indicates existing but not accessible, and ✅ means existing and accessible. The link [proj] directs to the project websites, while [data] directs to dataset websites. For CoMix, mix means that it inherits from a mixture of four datasets.

  Task	Name	Year	Access.	Language	Origin	# books	# pages
  Image Classification	Sequencity [proj]	2017	⚠️	EN, JP	-	-	140000
  	BAM! [proj]	2017	⚠️	-	-	-	2500000
  	Manga109 [proj][data]	2018	✅	JP	1970-2010	109	21142
  	EmoRecCom [proj][data]	2021	✅	EN	1938-1954	-	-
  Object Detection	Fahad18 [proj]	2012	❌	-	-	-	586
  	eBDtheque [proj][data]	2013	✅	EN, FR, JP	1905-2012	25	100
  	sun70 [proj]	2013	❌	FR	-	6	60
  	COMICS [proj][data]	2017	✅	EN	1938-1954	3948	198657
  	BAM! [proj]	2017	⚠️	-	-	-	2500000
  	JC2463 [proj]	2017	❌	JP	-	14	2463
  	AEC912 [proj]	2017	❌	EN, FR	-	-	912
  	GCN [proj][data]	2017	❌	EN, JP	1978-2013	253	38000
  	Sequencity612 [proj]	2017	⚠️	EN, JP	-	-	612
  	SSGCI [proj][data]	2016	❌	EN, FR, JP	1905-2012	-	500
  	Comics3w [proj]	2017	❌	JP, EN	-	103	29845
  	comics2k [proj][data]	2018	⚠️	-	-	-	-
  	DCM772 [proj][data]	2018	✅	EN	1938-1954	27	772
  	Manga109 [proj][data]	2018	✅	JP	1970-2010	109	21142
  	BCBId [proj][data]	2022	✅	BN	-	64	3327
  	COO [proj][data]	2022	✅	JP	1970-2010	109	10602
  	COMICS-Text+ [proj][data]	2022	✅	EN	1938-1954	3948	198657
  	PopManga [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN	1990-2020	25	1925
  	CoMix [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN, FR	1938-2023	100	3800
  Re-Identification	Fahad18 [proj]	2012	❌	-	-	-	586
  	Ho42	2013	❌	-	-	-	42
  	Manga109 [proj][data]	2018	✅	JP	1970-2010	109	21142
  	PopManga [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN	1990-2020	25	1925
  	CoMix [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN, FR	1938-2023	100	3800
  Linking	eBDtheque [proj][data]	2013	✅	EN, FR, JP	1905-2012	25	100
  	sun70	2013	❌	FR	-	6	60
  	GCN [proj][data]	2017	❌	EN, JP	1978-2013	253	38000
  	Manga109 [proj][data]	2018	✅	JP	1970-2010	109	21142
  	PopManga [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN	1990-2020	25	1925
  	CoMix [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN, FR	1938-2023	100	3800
  Segmentation	Sequencity4k [proj]	2020	⚠️	EN, FR, JP	-	-	4479
  Dialog Generation	PopManga [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN	1990-2020	25	1925
  	CoMix [proj][data]	2024	✅	EN, FR	1938-2023	100	3800
  Unknown	VLRC [proj][data]	2023	❌	JP, FR, EN, 6+	1940-present	376	7773

Venues

• Journals

  • TPAMI: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • TIP: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • TOMM: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • TVCG: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • TCSVT: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • THMS: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
  • ACM-TG: Transactions on Graphics
  • ACM-TAC: Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • IJHCI: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction
  • IJI: The International Journal on the Image
  • IJCG: The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
  • IJDAR: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • MM-CCA: Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications
• Conferences

  • NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems
  • ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning
  • CVPR: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • ICCV: IEEE/CVF International Conference of Computer Vision
  • ECCV: IEEE/CVF European Conference of Computer Vision
  • WACV: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
  • SciVis: IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference
  • ICIP: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
  • VCIP: IEEE International Conference Visual Communication Image Process
  • CSNT: IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies
  • CAIDCD: IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design
  • ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
  • ICDAR: IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • ICPR: International Conference on Pattern Recognition
  • ICIR: International Conference on Intelligent Reality
  • IIAI-AAI: International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics
  • MMM: Multimedia Modeling
  • LREC: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
  • MTA: Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • ICIT: International Conference on Information Technology
  • ICIAP: International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
  • IJCNN: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
  • ACPR: IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition
  • ICGC: IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
  • CAVW: Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
  • MM-TA: Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • DICTA: International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
  • UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
  • EMNLP: ACM Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • IIWAS: International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
  • MDPI-AS: MDPI Applied Science
  • ICMLC: International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
  • LACLO: Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies
  • ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics
  • ICCC: International Conference on Computational Creativity
  • 3DV: International Conference on 3D Vision
• Workshops

  • MANPU: IAPR International Workshop on Comics Analysis, Processing and Understanding
  • DAS: IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
  • IWAIT: International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology
  • ISPACS: Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems
  • SIGCSE: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
  • ISM: IEEE International Symposium in Multimedia

Links

🔧 Tools & Repositories

• CoMix - Framework for managing and benchmarking comics datasets
• ImageTrans - Image translation for manga
• Manga Image Translator - Manga image translation
• Comic Translate - Comic translation

How to Contribute 🚀

You can contribute in two ways:

1. The easiest is to open an Issue (see an example in issue #1) and we can discuss if there are missing papers, wrong associations or links, or misspelled venues.
2. The second one is making a pull request with the implemented changes, following the steps:
   1. Fork this repository and clone it locally.
   2. Create a new branch for your changes: git checkout -b feature-name.
   3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m 'Description of the changes'.
   4. Push to your fork: git push origin feature-name.
   5. Open a pull request on the original repository by providing a description of your changes.

This project is in constant development, and we welcome contributions to include the latest research papers in the field or report issues 💥💥.

Star History ⭐

Acknowledge

Many thanks to my co-authors for taking the time to help me with the various refactoring of the survey. Thanks to Beppe Folder for its Awesome Human Visual Attention repo that inspired the ✨style✨ of this repository.