[image 01896] CFP of the First International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2016)

[Motoi Iwata]

image-MLの皆様，Document-MLの皆様

大阪府立大学の岩田です．

国際会議ICPR2016にて開催される，
  The First International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2016)
という併設ワークショップのご案内です．

漫画を対象とした研究を，幅広く応募しています．

論文の投稿締切は，8月10日です．
ワークショップの開催日は，12月4日（ICPR2016本会議の前日）です．

投稿をご検討いただければ幸いです．


=======  CFP – ICPR WS 1st International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding =======

                                    Call for papers

                         The First International Workshop on
                    coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding
                           (in conjunction with ICPR 2016)
               December 4, 2016,  Cancun Center, Cancun, Q.Roo, Mexico

                              http://manpu2016.imlab.jp


Comics is a medium constituted of images combined with text and other visual information
in order to narrate a story. Nowadays, comic books are a widespread cultural expression
all over the world. The market of comics continues to grow, for example, the market in Japan
is about 4.25 billion USD in 2015. Moreover, from the research point of view, comics images
are attractive targets because the structure of a comics page includes various elements
(such as panels, speech balloons, captions, leading characters, and so on), the drawing of
which depends on the style of the author and presents a large variability.
Therefore, comics image analysis is not a trivial problem and is still immature compared
with other kinds of image analysis.


Scope and Topics
-------------------
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to,
- Comics Image Processing
- Comics Analysis and Understanding
- Comics Recognition
- Comics Retrieval and Spotting
- Comics Enrichment
- Reading Behavior Analysis
- Comics Generation
- Copy protection – Fraud detection
- Physical/digital comics interfaces


Important dates
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Paper submission deadline:       August 10, 2016
Notification of acceptance:      September 1, 2016
End of early-bird registration:  September 5, 2016
Workshop day:                    December 4, 2016


Datasets
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To evaluate the proposed works, participants will be able to use the following datasets
that are publicly available. Researchers can request to download them at each website.
- eBDtheque consists of 100 images with ground truth for panels, speech balloons, tails, text lines, leading characters.
    http://ebdtheque.univ-lr.fr/
- Manga109 consists of over 20 thousand images of 109 volumes (21,142 images).
    http://www.manga109.org/index_en.php


Paper Submissions
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The proceedings of MANPU2016 will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its
International Conference Proceedings Series. Manuscripts should be formatted using
the ACM proceedings templates(http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/).
The manuscript length is 6 pages maximum. Only PDF files are accepted. MANPU2016 follows
a single-blind review process. Authors are required to include their names and affiliations
in their papers. Dual submission or concurrent submission to the MANPU2016 workshop
and other conference or journal are not allowed.

Submission web site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manpu2016


General Co-Chairs
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Kiyoharu Aizawa          (Japan)
Koichi Kise              (Japan)
Jean-Marc Ogier          (France)


Program Co-Chairs
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Jean-Christophe Burie    (France)
Motoi Iwata              (Japan)
Toshihiko Yamasaki       (Japan)


Program Committee
-------------------
Ying Cao                 (Hong Kong)
Wei-Ta Chu               (Taiwan)
Mathieu Delalandre       (France)
Clément Guérin           (France)
Seiji Hotta              (Japan)
Dimosthenis Karatzas     (Spain)
Johannes Kopf            (USA)
Rynson W. H. Lau         (Hong Kong)
Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman (France)
Yusuke Matsui            (Japan)
Mitsunori Matsushita     (Japan)
Naoki Mori               (Japan)
Satoshi Nakamura         (Japan)
Srikanta Pal             (France)
Christophe Rigaud        (France)
Akihiko Shirai           (Japan)
Takaaki Shiratori        (USA)
Wong Tien-Tsin           (Hong Kong)
  

Workshop Secretariat
manpu2016-inquiry ＠ m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp

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Endorsed by the IAPR

-- 
Motoi IWATA, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Intelligent Media Processing Group
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka Prefecture University
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
+81 72 254 9281
E-mail: iwata ＠ cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp