Method for Creating Motion Comic from Printed Comic

Abstract

Motion comics, which are used to advertise printed comics, are created by adding video effects and a sound source to panels from the original (printed) comics. We propose a method for creating a motion comic which consists of the following steps: extracting a panel from a printed page, adding video effects, and switching the panel in time with sound effects. Because it is difficult for beginners in video production to perform these steps, we have devised a method that automatically creates a motion comic using the printed comic pages and sound. In our experimental evaluations, the precision of our proposed panel extraction was greater than 0.75, and we successfully implemented our proposed video effects and panel switching method.