Software automatically transforms movie clips into comic strips

March 19, 2012 | Source: PhysOrg
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A comic page generated from a movie clip of Titanic (credit: Wang, et al./IEEE)

“Movie2Comics” software can generate comics automatically, including comic panels of different sizes, positioning word balloons, and rendering movie frames in a cartoon style.

The researchers used the new method to transform 15 movie clips into comic strips.

Ref.: Meng Wang, et al. “Movie2Comics: Towards a Lively Video Content Presentation, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2012 [DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2012.2187181]