Automatic comic strip generation using extracted keyframes from cartoon animation

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method to generate comic strips from cartoon animation with the aim to cover more contents featured in each panel with more systematic representation. Consider that general techniques on video summarization usually drop some important contents due to its restriction on aspect ratio; this paper thus proposes a new method using panorama technology to include more details in each keyframe. The concept is to obtain various sizes keyframes generated from panning and non-panning shots. Each of these generated keyframes is treated as a comic strip panel. They are organized to be represented in comic books style. The results of this proposed method are the comic strip pages consist of comic panels derived from generated keyframes of various cartoon animations which are more aesthetic than lining ordinary keyframes up, and also have their contents similar to their respective comic adaptations.