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Front cover design of books like Manga is one of the most important factors for appealing contents to users. Fonts used for the title in the front cover are carefully selected among a lot of ones for fitting selected fonts to the content and the design. However, this task to select fonts, that increases attractions of the front cover and are appropriate for human characters pictured in the front cover, is not easy. Few experienced designers or editors can do well. In this paper we try to estimate and recommend appropriate typefaces of fonts that seem to be appropriate for title fonts from an image of front cover of Manga and Light novels. To evaluate our framework, we gathered front cover images of Manga and Light novels, and created database that containing five kinds of images; front cover images with/without title fonts, whole-body images with/without title fonts, and face images. Each image has two types of label encoded from the count number of 5 typefaces used for title fonts. Experimental results using our database show that about 70% of typefaces are correctly estimated and suggest a strong relationship between fonts used for title and front covers.
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Other examples of 2 kinds of front cover images, 2 kinds of whole-body images, and face images in our database are shown below (Fig. 7, 8 and 11).
Examples of front cover images with title fonts
Examples of front cover images with no title fonts
Examples of whole-body images with fonts
Examples of whole-body images with no fonts
Examples of face images (enlarged)
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Ishiyama, S., Sakai, K., Mori, M. (2023). Front Cover Image Database of Japanese Manga and Typeface Estimation of Their Title. In: Na, I., Irie, G. (eds) Frontiers of Computer Vision. IW-FCV 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1857. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4914-4_12
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