MANPU 2020: The 4th International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding Milan, Italy, January 11, 2021 |
Conference website | http://manpu2020.imlab.jp/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manpu2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | October 17, 2020 |
Submission deadline | October 17, 2020 |
Comics is a medium constituted of images combined with text and other visual information in order to narrate a story. Nowadays, comic books are a widespread cultural expression all over the world. The market of comics continues to grow, for example, the market in Japan is about 4.25 billion USD in 2015. Moreover, from the research point of view, comics images are attractive targets because the structure of a comics page includes various elements (such as panels, speech balloons, captions, leading characters, and so on), the drawing of which depends on the style of the author and presents a large variability. Therefore comics image analysis is not a trivial problem and is still immature compared with other kinds of image analysis.
Submission Guidelines
Submission and Review All papers will have to be submitted through the EasyChair submission system (under preparation) on or before the submission deadline. MANPU 2020 will follow a single-blind review process.
Paper format and length Papers should be formatted with the style files/details available at Information for Authors of Springer Computer Science Proceedings. Only PDF files are accepted. A complete paper should be submitted in the proper format. Only Full paper (12-15 pages) is accepted.
Notes Papers should describe original work on a MANPU-related topic, and authors must adhere to the IAPR Statement of Ethics. By submitting a manuscript to MANPU 2020, authors acknowledge that it has not been previously published or accepted for publication in substantially similar form in any peer-reviewed venue including journals or conferences. Also, the authors confirm that no paper substantially similar in content has been or will be submitted to another conference or workshop during the review period. The acceptance of a paper to MANPU 2020 requires that at least one of the authors registers for the workshop and presents the paper there.MANPU 2020 does not allow submission of any additional supplementary file.
List of Topics
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to,
- Comics Image Processing
- Comics Analysis and Understanding
- Comics Recognition
- Comics Retrieval and Spotting
- Comics Enrichment
- Born-digital comics
- Reading Behavior Analysis of Comics
- Comics Generation
- Copy protection - Fraud detection
- Physical/Digital Comics Interfaces
- Cognitive Processing and Comprehension of Comics
- Linguistics Analysis of Comics
Committees
General Co-Chairs
- Jean-Christophe Burie (University of La Rochelle, France)
- Motoi Iwata (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
- Miki Ueno (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Program Co-Chairs
- Rita Hartel (Paderborn University, Germany)
- Yusuke Matsui (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Tien-Tsin Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Advisory Board
- Kiyoharu Aizawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
- Jean-Marc Ogier (University of La Rochelle, France)
- Toshihiko Yamasaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Program Committee
- John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Ying Cao (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
- Wei-Ta Chu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
- Mathieu Delalandre (Tours University, France)
- Alexander Dunst (Paderborn University, Germany)
- Seiji Hotta (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
- Rynson W. H. Lau (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
- Jochen Laubrock (University of Potsdam, Germany)
- Tong-Yee Lee (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
- Mitsunori Matsushita (Kansai University, Japan)
- Tetsuya Mihara (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman (University of La Rochelle, France)
- Mitsuharu Nagamori (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Satoshi Nakamura (Meiji University, Japan)
- Nhu Van Nguyen (University of La Rochelle, France)
- Christophe Rigaud (University of La Rochelle, France)
- Yasuyuki Sumi (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
- John Walsh (Indiana University, USA)
- Yingqing Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
Contact
Workshop Secretariat:
manpu2020-inquiry [at] m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp
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