3 papers
cs.CL2026
Manga109-v2026: Revisiting Manga109 Annotations for Modern Manga Understanding
Jeonghun Baek, Atsuyuki Miyai, Shota Onohara +2
Manga is a culturally distinctive multimodal medium and one of the most influential forms of Japanese popular culture. As AI systems increasingly target manga understanding, OCR, a…
cs.CL2026
MangaVQA and MangaLMM: A Benchmark and Specialized Model for Multimodal Manga Understanding
Jeonghun Baek, Kazuki Egashira, Shota Onohara +4
Manga, or Japanese comics, is a richly multimodal narrative form that blends images and text in complex ways. Teaching large multimodal models (LMMs) to understand such narratives…
cs.CV2024
MangaUB: A Manga Understanding Benchmark for Large Multimodal Models
Hikaru Ikuta, Leslie Wöhler, Kiyoharu Aizawa
Manga is a popular medium that combines stylized drawings and text to convey stories. As manga panels differ from natural images, computational systems traditionally had to be desi…