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A web comic discovery tool that solves the copyright infringement problem
- joshu 14y agoThis is totally clever. I bet this is pretty automatable, too.
- swah 14y agoThis should be pretty trivial with OpenCV etc.
- hkuo 14y agoThanks joshu and swah! I'm actually the creator of the site and am doing this completely manually. I've explored here and there on how I might automate it, though it all looks a bit daunting. I hadn't heard of OpenCV, and I will definitely explore this further. Thank you so much!
- joshu 14y agoOpenCV is just an API, might be a lot of work. I think you want to do a Hough transform and then look for long vertical lines. But I'm no expert.
- apu 14y agoUnfortunately, nothing in computer vision's ever as trivial as you might imagine, or as it should be.
- joshu 14y agoTrue. But I bet you'd get 80% of the way there with canny + hough.
- apu 14y agoI ended up spending most of the day on it and it's more like 20% with that combo. Fortunately, I found a better way that does get me to 80% or so.
- joshu 14y agoNo kidding? What's working?
- apu 14y agoFull writeup coming soon! (I'll comment here with a link, in case it doesn't make front-page.) Getting the lines is not the hard part, but rather, reasoning about the regions enclosed by them to find the panels. I'm not totally satisfied with my current solution (it's a bit hacky), so I'll try to tweak it a bit, but in any case, results will be posted soon.
- joshu 14y agoso you're trying to solve the "upper corner square" of an item, rather than the "approximately first third" of a linear one? also, i wonder what his UI works like? i bet you can do this in two clicks of a human per comic.
- swah 14y agoBut, but... square detection!