Manga109-v2026: Revisiting Manga109 Annotations for Modern Manga Understanding

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Autori principali: Baek, Jeonghun, Miyai, Atsuyuki, Onohara, Shota, Ikuta, Hikaru, Aizawa, Kiyoharu
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Baek, Jeonghun
Miyai, Atsuyuki
Onohara, Shota
Ikuta, Hikaru
Aizawa, Kiyoharu
author_facet Baek, Jeonghun
Miyai, Atsuyuki
Onohara, Shota
Ikuta, Hikaru
Aizawa, Kiyoharu
contents Manga is a culturally distinctive multimodal medium and one of the most influential forms of Japanese popular culture. As AI systems increasingly target manga understanding, OCR, and translation, Manga109 has become a foundational dataset for manga-related AI research. However, the current Manga109 dataset contains transcription errors and coarse annotations, which do not align well with modern OCR and multimodal manga understanding tasks. In this work, we revisit the dialogue text annotations of Manga109 and identify five categories of annotation issues, including transcription errors, missing text regions, overlapping dialogue and onomatopoeia, and under-segmented speech balloons. To address these issues, we combine OCR-based issue detection and manual revision to construct Manga109-v2026, revising approximately 29,000 dialogue annotations. Our revisions better align Manga109 with modern OCR and multimodal manga understanding systems while preserving expressive structures characteristic of manga.
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spellingShingle Manga109-v2026: Revisiting Manga109 Annotations for Modern Manga Understanding
Baek, Jeonghun
Miyai, Atsuyuki
Onohara, Shota
Ikuta, Hikaru
Aizawa, Kiyoharu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Manga is a culturally distinctive multimodal medium and one of the most influential forms of Japanese popular culture. As AI systems increasingly target manga understanding, OCR, and translation, Manga109 has become a foundational dataset for manga-related AI research. However, the current Manga109 dataset contains transcription errors and coarse annotations, which do not align well with modern OCR and multimodal manga understanding tasks. In this work, we revisit the dialogue text annotations of Manga109 and identify five categories of annotation issues, including transcription errors, missing text regions, overlapping dialogue and onomatopoeia, and under-segmented speech balloons. To address these issues, we combine OCR-based issue detection and manual revision to construct Manga109-v2026, revising approximately 29,000 dialogue annotations. Our revisions better align Manga109 with modern OCR and multimodal manga understanding systems while preserving expressive structures characteristic of manga.
title Manga109-v2026: Revisiting Manga109 Annotations for Modern Manga Understanding
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21182