[image 03128] CFP of the 3rd International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU 2019)

[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MMM2019にて開催される，
  The Third International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2019)
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論文の投稿締切は，8月27日(月)です．

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=======  CFP – MMM WS 3rd International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding =======

                                    Call for papers

                         The Second International Workshop on
                    coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding
                           (in conjunction with MMM 2019)
                          January 8, 2019,  Thesssaloniki, Greece

http://mmm2019.iti.gr/3rd-international-workshop-on-comics-analysis-processing-and-understanding-manpu-2019/


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
- Born Digital Comics
- Reading Behavior Analysis of Comics
- Comics Generation
- Copy protection - Fraud detection
- Physical/Digital Comics Interfaces
- Cognitive Processing and Comprehension of Comics
- Linguistics Analysis of Comics


Important dates
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Paper submission due:               August 27, 2018 (strict)
Notification of acceptance:         September 17, 2018
Camera-ready paperdue:              October 12, 2018
Workshop day:                       January 8, 2019

Datasets
-------------------
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
-------------------
Submission and Review
All papers will have to be submitted through the EasyChair submission system on or before
the submission deadline.
Please check the paper submission page:
http://mmm2019.iti.gr/paper-submission/

Author Guidelines:
http://mmm2019.iti.gr/author-guidelines/


General Co-Chairs
-------------------
Jean-Christophe Burie   (France)
Motoi Iwata             (Japan)
Yusuke Matsui           (Japan)

Program Co-Chairs
-------------------
Alexander Dunst         (Germany)
Miki Ueno               (Japan)
Tien-Tsin Wong          (Hong Kong)

Advisory Board
-------------------
Kiyoharu Aizawa         (Japan)
Koichi Kise             (Japan)
Jean-Marc Ogier         (France)
Toshihiko Yamasaki      (Japan)

Program Committee
-------------------
John Bateman             (Germany)
Ying Cao                 (Hong Kong)
Wei-Ta Chu               (Taiwan)
Mathieu Delalandre       (France)
Seiji Hotta              (Japan)
Rynson W. H. Lau         (Hong Kong)
Jochen Laubrock          (Germany)
Tong-Yee Lee             (Taiwan)
Xueting Liu              (Hong Kong)
Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman (France)
Mitsunori Matsushita     (Japan)
Tetsuya Mihara           (Japan)
Naoki Mori               (Japan)
Mitsuharu Nagamori       (Japan)
Satoshi Nakamura         (Japan)
Nhu Van Nguyen           (France)
Christophe Rigaud        (France)
Yasuyuki Sumi            (Japan)
John Walsh               (USA)
Yingqing Xu              (China)

-- 
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