[CFP] The 7th International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU 2026)
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Motoi IWATA
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大阪公立大学の岩田です．
2026年8月22日にフランスのリヨンで開催される国際会議ICPR2026の併設ワークショップ
The 7th International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2026)
のご案内です．
漫画を対象とした研究を，幅広く応募しています．
卒論や修論を英語化しての投稿など，ご検討いただけますと幸いです．
論文の投稿締切は以下の通りです：
Title / abstract submission due: April 26th, 2026
Paper submission due: May 3rd, 2026
投稿の詳細については，下記のテキストや，MANPU2026のウェブサイトをご覧ください．
https://manpu2026.imlab.jp
よろしくお願い申し上げます．
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Call for paper MANPU 2026
7th International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding
August 22, 2026, Lyon, France
In conjunction with ICPR 2026
https://manpu2026.imlab.jp
Comics is a medium constituted of images combined with text and other visual information in order to narrate a story. Nowadays, comic books are a widespread cultural expression all over the world. The market of comics continues to grow, for example, the market in Japan is about 4.25 billion USD in 2015. Moreover, from the research point of view, comics images are attractive targets because the structure of a comics page includes various elements (such as panels, speech balloons, captions, leading characters, and so on), the drawing of which depends on the style of the author and presents a large variability. Therefore comics image analysis is not a trivial problem and is still immature compared with other kinds of image analysis.
Important dates
Title / abstract submission due: April 26th, 2026
Paper submission due: May 3rd, 2026
Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: June 14th, 2026
Workshop: August 22nd, 2026
Scope and Topics
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to,
– Comics Image Processing
– Comics Analysis and Understanding
– Comics Recognition
– Comics Retrieval and Spotting
– Comics Enrichment
– Born Digital Comics
– Reading Behavior Analysis of Comics
– Comics Generation
– Copy protection
– Fraud detection
– Physical/Digital Comics Interfaces
– Cognitive Processing and Comprehension of Comics
– Linguistics Analysis of Comics
Datasets
To evaluate the proposed works, participants will be able to use the following datasets that are publicly available. Researchers can request to download them at each website.
– eBDtheque consists of 100 images with ground truth for panels, speech balloons, tails, text lines, leading characters: http://ebdtheque.univ-lr.fr/
– Manga109 consists of over 20 thousand images of 109 volumes (21,142 images): http://www.manga109.org/en/
Paper Submissions
Submission and Review
All papers will have to be submitted through the Microsoft CMT service on or before the submission deadline. The paper reviews of MANPU 2026 follow double-blind review policy. The conference workshop proceeding will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Papers should be formatted with LNCS format available on the ICPR 2026 website. A paper should not exceed 15 pages including references. If the paper exceeds 15 pages, the author must pay 150€ for each additional page. Only full paper (more than 6 pages) will be accepted. Only PDF files are accepted.
See more information on the website : https://manpu2026.imlab.jp/
General Co-Chairs
Jean-Christophe Burie (France)
Motoi Iwata (Japan)
Yusuke Matsui (Japan)
Program Co-Chairs
Ryosuke Yamanishi (Japan)
Tien-Tsin Wong (Hong Kong)
Advisory Board
Kiyoharu Aizawa (Japan)
Koichi Kise (Japan)
Jean-Marc Ogier (France)
Toshihiko Yamasaki (Japan)
Contact : i-m-manpu2...@ml.omu.ac.jp
More info: https://manpu2026.imlab.jp
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Motoi IWATA, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Intelligent Media Processing Group
Graduate School of Informatics
Osaka Metropolitan University
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
+81 72 254 9281
E-mail: imo...@omu.ac.jp
大阪公立大学の岩田です．
2026年8月22日にフランスのリヨンで開催される国際会議ICPR2026の併設ワークショップ
The 7th International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2026)
のご案内です．
漫画を対象とした研究を，幅広く応募しています．
卒論や修論を英語化しての投稿など，ご検討いただけますと幸いです．
論文の投稿締切は以下の通りです：
Title / abstract submission due: April 26th, 2026
Paper submission due: May 3rd, 2026
投稿の詳細については，下記のテキストや，MANPU2026のウェブサイトをご覧ください．
https://manpu2026.imlab.jp
よろしくお願い申し上げます．
==========
Call for paper MANPU 2026
7th International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding
August 22, 2026, Lyon, France
In conjunction with ICPR 2026
https://manpu2026.imlab.jp
Comics is a medium constituted of images combined with text and other visual information in order to narrate a story. Nowadays, comic books are a widespread cultural expression all over the world. The market of comics continues to grow, for example, the market in Japan is about 4.25 billion USD in 2015. Moreover, from the research point of view, comics images are attractive targets because the structure of a comics page includes various elements (such as panels, speech balloons, captions, leading characters, and so on), the drawing of which depends on the style of the author and presents a large variability. Therefore comics image analysis is not a trivial problem and is still immature compared with other kinds of image analysis.
Important dates
Title / abstract submission due: April 26th, 2026
Paper submission due: May 3rd, 2026
Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: June 14th, 2026
Workshop: August 22nd, 2026
Scope and Topics
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to,
– Comics Image Processing
– Comics Analysis and Understanding
– Comics Recognition
– Comics Retrieval and Spotting
– Comics Enrichment
– Born Digital Comics
– Reading Behavior Analysis of Comics
– Comics Generation
– Copy protection
– Fraud detection
– Physical/Digital Comics Interfaces
– Cognitive Processing and Comprehension of Comics
– Linguistics Analysis of Comics
Datasets
To evaluate the proposed works, participants will be able to use the following datasets that are publicly available. Researchers can request to download them at each website.
– eBDtheque consists of 100 images with ground truth for panels, speech balloons, tails, text lines, leading characters: http://ebdtheque.univ-lr.fr/
– Manga109 consists of over 20 thousand images of 109 volumes (21,142 images): http://www.manga109.org/en/
Paper Submissions
Submission and Review
All papers will have to be submitted through the Microsoft CMT service on or before the submission deadline. The paper reviews of MANPU 2026 follow double-blind review policy. The conference workshop proceeding will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Papers should be formatted with LNCS format available on the ICPR 2026 website. A paper should not exceed 15 pages including references. If the paper exceeds 15 pages, the author must pay 150€ for each additional page. Only full paper (more than 6 pages) will be accepted. Only PDF files are accepted.
See more information on the website : https://manpu2026.imlab.jp/
General Co-Chairs
Jean-Christophe Burie (France)
Motoi Iwata (Japan)
Yusuke Matsui (Japan)
Program Co-Chairs
Ryosuke Yamanishi (Japan)
Tien-Tsin Wong (Hong Kong)
Advisory Board
Kiyoharu Aizawa (Japan)
Koichi Kise (Japan)
Jean-Marc Ogier (France)
Toshihiko Yamasaki (Japan)
Contact : i-m-manpu2...@ml.omu.ac.jp
More info: https://manpu2026.imlab.jp
--
Motoi IWATA, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Intelligent Media Processing Group
Graduate School of Informatics
Osaka Metropolitan University
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
+81 72 254 9281
E-mail: imo...@omu.ac.jp
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