Communications of the ACM
Software Automatically Transforms Movie Clips Into Comic Strips
A comic page generated from a movie clip of "Titanic."
Credit: Meng Wang, et al. 2012 IEEE
Hefei University of Technology researchers have developed Movie2Comics, software that can automatically transform movie scenes into comic strips, without the need for human intervention. "Professionals can directly use the software to generate comics (or integrate their interaction to achieve more impressive results); hobbyists may have interests to try it to see what will be generated from different movie clips," says Hefei professor Meng Wang.
Although previous programs have been developed to help cartoonists convert movies into comics, Wang says Movie2Comics is the first fully automated approach. The program features an automatic script-face mapping algorithm that identifies the speaking character in scenes with multiple characters, automatic generation of comic panels of different sizes, positioning word balloons, and rendering movie frames in a cartoon style. The researchers used the program to transform 15 movie clips into comic strips with 85 percent accuracy, which the researchers hope to improve.
Although the method can perform all of the steps automatically, the researchers found that some human effort could lead to better results.
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