[add papers] new 2024 papers

[emanuelevivoli]

In the ICDAR 2024, a bunch of papers on comics/manga understanding, analysis, and synthesis have been published. In particular, the MANPU workshop accepted papers are listed below. Some links to arxiv, while the once with no arxiv links to the ICDAR-MANPU proceedings. I kept the arxiv because not everyone can access/download the proceeding...

Accessible papers.

Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
2024	MANPU	Comics Datasets Framework: Mix of Comics datasets for detection benchmarking	Vivoli, Emanuele et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
2024	MANPU	Toward accessible comics for blind and low vision readers	Rigaud, Christophe et al.	📜 Paper
2024	MANPU	A Comprehensive Gold Standard and Benchmark for Comics Text Detection and Recognition	Soykan, Gürkan et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
2024	MANPU	ComicBERT: A Transformer Model and Pre-training Strategy for Contextual Understanding in Comics	Soykan, Gürkan et al.	📜 Paper, 👨‍💻 Code
2024	MANPU	Investigating Neural Networks and Transformer Models for Enhanced Comic Decoding	Kouletou, Eleanna et al.	📜 Paper
2024	MANPU	Spatially Augmented Speech Bubble to Character Association via Comic Multi-Task Learning	Soykan, Gürkan et al.	📜 Paper
2024	MANPU	Quantitative evaluation based on CLIP for methods inhibiting imitation of painting styles	Iwata, Motoi et al.	📜 Paper
2024	MANPU	Retrieving and Analyzing Translations of American Newspaper Comics with Visual Evidence	Murel, Jacob et al.	📜 Paper

What next?

Subsequent comments to this issue will propose where to locate the papers based on the task they tackle or propose.

[emanuelevivoli]

Conference proceedings are out here, let's close this issue, Lele!

[emanuelevivoli]

Additional paper:

Year	Conference / Journal	Title	Authors	Links
2024	Arxiv (IEEE?)	MangaUB: A Manga Understanding Benchmark for Large Multimodal Models	Ikuta, Hikaru et al.	📜 Paper