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# PopCharacters
A dataset of various manga characters. Contains character names, exemplar images, and a list of chapters in which they appear.

# Citation
```
@InProceedings{magiv1,
    author    = {Sachdeva, Ragav and Zisserman, Andrew},
    title     = {The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2024},
    pages     = {12967-12976}
}
```
```
@misc{magiv2,
      author={Ragav Sachdeva and Gyungin Shin and Andrew Zisserman},
      title={Tails Tell Tales: Chapter-Wide Manga Transcriptions with Character Names}, 
      year={2024},
      eprint={2408.00298},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00298}, 
}
```