Mask Dataset for: Unconstrained Text Detection in Manga: a New Dataset and Baseline

This is the dataset used in out paper "Unconstrained Text Detection in Manga: a New Dataset and Baseline". It contains 450 images with the text segmentation of images from Manga109 dataset (need to request access to this dataset in order to view original manga image). Pre-processed version of the images is how they were saved straight out of GIMP. These were later processed before using for training. Post-processed version of the images is after automatically removing small connected components and filling small holes. They are also slightly bigger in width/height in order to be multiples of 8. The text is split in 2 colors: black and pink. Text in black represents text we consider easy to recognize, which is mostly when inside a speech bubble. Text in pink represents text we consider harder to detect, such as text in covers, sound effects or text outside speech bubbles. Further details can be found in our paper.

本数据集为我们的论文《Unconstrained Text Detection in Manga: a New Dataset and Baseline》中所使用的数据集。该数据集包含450张图像，其文本分割标注源自Manga109数据集（需申请获取该数据集权限方可查看原始漫画图像）。图像的预处理版本为直接从GIMP导出的存储形式，后续在用于训练前还会进行进一步处理。后处理版本则是经过自动去除小型连通分量、填补小型孔洞后的图像，同时为使其宽高均为8的整数倍，会对图像尺寸进行小幅调整。文本标注分为黑色与粉色两种：黑色文本代表我们认为易于识别的文本，这类文本大多位于对话气泡内部；粉色文本则代表较难检测的文本，例如封面文字、音效文字以及对话气泡外的文本。更多细节可参阅我们的论文。