• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.538-545
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• 2011

Today, there is a wide variety of digital contents on the Internet. Especially, comic images are one of popular digital contents. Most of them are scanned from comic books by digital scanners, but they were not normalized in sense of their size, skew and boundary margin. The normalization is very important step in comic image analysis. It can be achieved by finding out-boundary rectangles in comic images. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting the out-boundary rectangle using the gradient Radon transform in comic images. We applied the Radon transform using image gradients to extract line segments which are the out-boundary rectangle sides' candidates in comic images. The final out-boundary rectangle can be detected by local histogram and the candidate line segments. Experimental results show that our proposed method effectively detect the out-boundary rectangle in comic images.