Bangla Comic Book Image Dataset (BCBId)

Comic books and graphic novels have been the subject of serious critical attention for some time now, though a number of works on 'English comic genres' can be found but none of them really focused on the 'Bengali comics genres'.

Here this database contains a total of 3327 images of different kinds of 'Bengali Comic Books' from a diverse set of renowned authors.

Here this database contains the book Narayan Debnath Samagro (509 pages) which has all the comics written by renowned author Narayan Debnath including 'Batul The Great',  'Nonte-Fonte',  'Handa Bhodar Kamdokarkhana' etc.

Similarly, 112 pages of 'হষৰ্বধৰ্ন' comics written by Shibram Chakrabarty (a total of 9 comics), 95 pages of 'Bonkonnya' comics written by Frank Cho (a total of 4 comics), 496 pages of 'Feluda' comics written by Satyajit Ray (a total of 9 comics), 218 pages of 'Professor Shonku' comics written by Satyajit Ray (a total of 8 comics), 73 pages of 'ঘনাদা' comics written by Premendra Mitra (a total of 4 comics), 1216 pages of 'Tintin' comics written by Hergé (a total of 19 comics), 164 pages of 'Indrajal' comics (a total of 5 comics) and 444 pages of 'Mandrake' comics (a total of 5 comics).

This database will only be used for Academic Research purpose, it is not for commercial use.

Sample results  for comic video summarization  are available at the following link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lzSnI3dxt_Mbwfddp_12RRyDstOpVzF9?usp=sharing 

If you are using this dataset for research ,  please cite the following paper:

Arpita Dutta and Samit Biswas 

CNN Based Extraction of Panels/Characters from Bengali Comic Book Page Images

2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Workshops (ICDARW)  vol.  1,  pp.  38-43,  Sept 22-25, 2019, Sydney, NSW, Australia, doi: 10.1109/ICDARW.2019.00012

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8893046

Arpita Dutta, Samit Biswas and Amit Kumar Das  

CNN-based segmentation of speech balloons and narrative text boxes from comic book page images.

IJDAR 24, 49–62 (2021).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-021-00366-4 

Arpita Dutta, Arpan Garai, Samit Biswas and Amit Kumar Das  

Segmentation of text lines using multi-scale CNN from warped printed and handwritten document images.

IJDAR 24, 299–313 (2021). 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-021-00370-8 

Arpita Dutta, Samit Biswas and Amit Kumar Das  

 BCBId: first Bangla comic dataset and its applications.

IJDAR 25, 265–279 (2022). 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-022-00412-9 

Tanushree Das, Arpita Dutta, Samit Biswas

 Summarization of Comic Videos.

In: Das, A.K., Nayak, J., Naik, B., Vimal, S., Pelusi, D. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition. CIPR 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 480. Springer, Singapore.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3089-8_15 

Arpan Garai, Arpita Dutta and Samit Biswas 

Automatic dewarping of camera-captured comic document images.

Multimedia Tools and Applications 82, 1537–1552 (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13234-y