Vectorization of Raster Manga by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Manga is a popular Japanese-style comic form that consists of black-and-white
stroke lines. Compared with images of real-world scenarios, the simpler
textures and fewer color gradients of mangas are the extra natures that can be
vectorized. In this paper, we propose Mang2Vec, the first approach for
vectorizing raster mangas using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). Unlike
existing learning-based works of image vectorization, we present a new view
that considers an entire manga as a collection of basic primitives "stroke
line", and the sequence of strokes lines can be deep decomposed for further
vectorization. We train a designed DRL agent to produce the most suitable
sequence of stroke lines, which is constrained to follow the visual feature of
the target manga. Next, the control parameters of strokes are collected to
translated to vector format. To improve our performances on visual quality and
storage size, we further propose an SA reward to generate accurate stokes, and
a pruning mechanism to avoid producing error and redundant strokes.
Quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate that our Mang2Vec can
produce impressive results and reaches the state-of-the-art level.
Authors
Hao Su, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu, Jiahe Cui, Ji Wan