Contact - Comics Understanding

There are many Tasks and Challenges in this collection. For any question about this challenge, please contact comics@cvc.uab.es.

 

# Task 1 (ICDAR 2025)

The ICDAR 2025 Competition Pick-A-Panel is organized by CVC researchers:

Emanuele Vivoli, [website] is a joint PhD student at the Computer Vision Center (Barcelona) and MICC Lab (Florence). His research focuses on multi-modal learning, especially comics understanding. His work spans topics like document analysis, comics understanding and generation.

Artemis Llabrés, is a PhD student at the Computer Vision Center, where she is part of the Vision, Language, and Reading group. Her research focuses on multimodal models for document understanding. In 2024, she received the Best Student Paper award at the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems for her work, "Image-Text Matching for Large-Scale Book Collections".

Mohamed Ali Soubgui, is a postdoc at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona. He received his PhD in 2022 from UAB, focusing on document image analysis, privacy, and explainability in computer vision.

Dimosthenis Karatzas, is an associate professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and associate director of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) in Barcelona, Spain. At the CVC, he leads the vision and language research line, working at the intersection of computer vision and text analysis. He has co-authored over 100 publications in refereed journals and conferences and has an H-index of 43. He was the recipient of the 2013 IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award, and Google Faculty Research Award in 2017. D. Karatzas has served in various roles at major conferences in his field (ICDAR, DAS, CBDAR, ICPR, ICFHR), including co-chairing IWRR 2014/16/18 and CBDAR 2015/17. D. Karatzas is a lead organiser of the Robust Reading Competitions series. He is the chair of the Technical Committee 11 on Reading Systems of the Int. Association of Pattern Recognition. D. Karatzas has been a founding member and a member of the executive committee of the UK Chapter of the SPIE, while he is currently a member of the IAPR-Education Committee and member of the IEEE the IAPR. He is one of the founders of the Library Living Lab, an open participatory innovation space in a public library.

 

# Task 2 (NeurIPS 2024 Benchmark)

The NeurIPS 2024 Benchmark is managed by Emanuele Vivoli, Marco Bertini and Dimosthenis Karatzas.

This Task will be managed soon in this website. As for now, refer to https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/CoMix.