Generating Cartoon-Style Summary of Daily Life with Multimedia Mobile Devices

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

Kato

2011

We present a camerawork module for representing events in a virtual museum with a comic style. The module uses four basic camera shots, i.e., internal, external, apex, and group, to compose a shot sequence of two main events happening in a museum, i.e., move and stay. This module is fully implemented in a comic generation system we have been developing for summarizing user experiences in Second Life. Visual comparison, with a baseline camerawork, confirms the effectiveness of the proposed camerawork module.

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Camerawork for Comics Generated from Visitors’ Experiences in a Virtual Museum

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

Kato

2011

“…Recent comic applications include summarization of activities in a conference [1], daily activities [2], video sequences [3], and game-play activities [4][5][6]. Comic-based experience summaries facilitate augmenting personal memories as well as promoting communication among user communities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rule-Based Camerawork Controller for Automatic Comic Generation from Game Log

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Oda

Shuda

2010

Abstract. We propose a rule-based camerawork controller for a recently proposed a comic generation system. Five camerawork rules are derived through an analysis of online-game webcomics about Lineage 2, one rule for each of the five event types: chatting, fighting, moving, approaching, and special. Each rule consists of three parts relating to the three camera parameters: camera angle, camera position, and zoom position. Each camera-parameter part contains multiples shot types whose value indicates the frequency of their usages in the analyzed webcomics. In this paper, comic frames generated with the proposed camerawork controller are shown and compared with those generated with our previous controller based on heuristic rules, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed camerawork controller.

“…In addition, traditional comic techniques can be introduced to achieve expression of various situations. Comicstyle representation has been used for summary of conference participation [2], diary experiences [3], and video contents [4], as well as online-game events [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Frame Selection for Automatic Comic Generation from Game Log

Shuda

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2008

Abstract. Recently, we have presented a comic generating system that visualizes an online-game play. Our system was inspired by a former work of Shamir et al. However, comics generated in their work can have series of similar frames when multiple actions occur near each other in both time and space. In this paper, we first present a frame-selection module that uses Habituated Self-Organizing Map. Our method prevents comic readers from boredom by getting rid of resemble consecutive frame candidates. We then evaluate the method by a subject experiment using a play from the ICE, an online-game developed in our laboratory. Experimental result confirms that our method is effective in making output comics more interesting than a baseline method.