Automatic Reading Order Detection of Comic Panels.

Tasks such as object detection for comic content are attracting more and more attention from the public. A lot of work focuses on character detection, text recognition, or other tasks. However, only a few of them focus on the reading order detection of panels. In this paper, we review several existing sorting methods and propose a novel method based on these existing methods. Experiment results show that the proposed method outperforms the baseline methods. The proposed method can deal with pages with basic layouts easily. And sometimes has the ability to deal with some pages with complex layouts.