Indian researchers are making software that can convert comics into videos. An animated movie is made from a comic book that has been scanned. A dataset called “IMCDB: Indian Mythological Comic Dataset of Digitized Indian Comic Storybook.” It is called “IMCDB: Indian Mythological Comic Dataset.”
Key Highlight:
- Researchers at IIT Jodhpur are working on a software framework called Comic-to-Video Network (C2VNet) that will help them turn digital comics into videos.
- The researchers have come up with a name for the dataset: “IMCDB: Indian Mythological Comic Dataset of Digitized Indian Comic Storybook.” This is in the English language.
- C2VNet has two internal networks that help make videos.
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Jodhpur) researchers are developing a software framework, Comic-to-Video Network (C2VNet), to convert digitised comics to video. The researchers of Digital Humanities contribute to a composite of approaches methods rather than different approaches, emphasizing preserving, reconstructing, transmitting, and interpreting human records historically and contemporaneously.
According to IIT Jodhpur, “The C2VNet evolves panel-by-panel in a comic strip and eventually produces a full-length video (with audio) of a digitised or born-digital storybook. The goal was to design and develop software that takes a born-digital or digitised comic book as input and produces an audio-visual animated movie from it.”
The researchers have proposed a dataset titled “IMCDB: Indian Mythological Comic Dataset of Digitised Indian Comic Storybook” in the English language. “This has complete annotations for panels, binary masks of the text balloon, and text files for each speech balloon and narration box within a panel and plans to make the dataset publicly available,” the release mentioned.
Dr. Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, said that the panel extraction model C2VNet has two internal networks to support the video creation. “CPENet developed by the team gives over 97 per cent accuracy, and the speech balloon segmentation model SBSNet gives 98 percent accuracy with fewer parameters. Both have outperformed state-of-art models. C2VNet is the first step towards the big future of automatic multimedia creation of comic books to bring new comic reading experiences.”
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— Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (@iitjodhpur) January 9, 2022
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