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Composition Proposal Generation for Manga Creation Support

Hironori ITO, Yasuhito ASANO

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In recent years, cognition and use of manga pervade, and people who use manga for various purposes such as entertainment, study, marketing are increasing more and more. However, when people who do not specialize in it create it for these purposes, they can write plots expressing what they want to convey but the technique of the composition which arranges elements in manga such as characters or balloons corresponding to the plot create obstacles to using its merits for comprehensibility based on high flexibility of its expression. Therefore, we consider that support of this composition technique is necessary for amateurs to use manga while taking advantage of its benefits. We propose a method of generating composition proposal to support manga creation by amateurs. For the method, we also define new manga metadata model which summarize and extend metadata models by earlier studies. It represents the compostion and the plot in manga. We apply a neural machine translation mechanism for learing the relation between the composition and the plot. It considers that the plot annotation is the source of the composition annotation that is the target, and learns from the annotation dataset based on the metadata model. We conducted experiments to evaluate how the composition proposal generated by our method helps amateur manga creation, and demonstrated that it is useful.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E103-D No.5 pp.949-957
Publication Date
2020/05/01
Publicized
2019/12/27
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2019DAP0005
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Data Engineering and Information Management)
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Hironori ITO
  Kyoto University
Yasuhito ASANO
  Kyoto University

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