Manga109Dialog: A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Yingxuan, Aizawa, Kiyoharu, Matsui, Yusuke
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author Li, Yingxuan
Aizawa, Kiyoharu
Matsui, Yusuke
author_facet Li, Yingxuan
Aizawa, Kiyoharu
Matsui, Yusuke
contents The expanding market for e-comics has spurred interest in the development of automated methods to analyze comics. For further understanding of comics, an automated approach is needed to link text in comics to characters speaking the words. Comics speaker detection research has practical applications, such as automatic character assignment for audiobooks, automatic translation according to characters' personalities, and inference of character relationships and stories. To deal with the problem of insufficient speaker-to-text annotations, we created a new annotation dataset Manga109Dialog based on Manga109. Manga109Dialog is the world's largest comics speaker annotation dataset, containing 132,692 speaker-to-text pairs. We further divided our dataset into different levels by prediction difficulties to evaluate speaker detection methods more appropriately. Unlike existing methods mainly based on distances, we propose a deep learning-based method using scene graph generation models. Due to the unique features of comics, we enhance the performance of our proposed model by considering the frame reading order. We conducted experiments using Manga109Dialog and other datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our scene-graph-based approach outperforms existing methods, achieving a prediction accuracy of over 75%.
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spellingShingle Manga109Dialog: A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection
Li, Yingxuan
Aizawa, Kiyoharu
Matsui, Yusuke
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The expanding market for e-comics has spurred interest in the development of automated methods to analyze comics. For further understanding of comics, an automated approach is needed to link text in comics to characters speaking the words. Comics speaker detection research has practical applications, such as automatic character assignment for audiobooks, automatic translation according to characters' personalities, and inference of character relationships and stories. To deal with the problem of insufficient speaker-to-text annotations, we created a new annotation dataset Manga109Dialog based on Manga109. Manga109Dialog is the world's largest comics speaker annotation dataset, containing 132,692 speaker-to-text pairs. We further divided our dataset into different levels by prediction difficulties to evaluate speaker detection methods more appropriately. Unlike existing methods mainly based on distances, we propose a deep learning-based method using scene graph generation models. Due to the unique features of comics, we enhance the performance of our proposed model by considering the frame reading order. We conducted experiments using Manga109Dialog and other datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our scene-graph-based approach outperforms existing methods, achieving a prediction accuracy of over 75%.
title Manga109Dialog: A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17469