Object Detection for Comics using Manga109 Annotations

Understand

With the growth of digitized comics, image understanding techniques are becoming important.

• In this paper, we focus on object detection, which is a fundamental task of image understanding.
• Although convolutional neural networks (CNN)-based methods archived good performance in object detection for naturalistic images, there are two problems in applying these methods to the comic object detection task.
• First, there is no large-scale annotated comics dataset.