6 datasets found

Visual narratives, like comics, at times show depictions of characters’ imagination, dreams, or flashbacks, which seem incongruent with the ongoing primary narrative. Such...

Corpus data of comic backgrounds from six countries; used to examine cultural differences in background use to communicate spatial information about the context of comic scenes.

In visual narratives like comics, the most overt form of perspective-taking comes in panels that directly depict the viewpoints of characters in the scene. We therefore examined...

The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) is comprised of annotations of a corpus of comics analyzing the structures in visual languages of the world. The VLRC includes ~36,000...

Languages use different strategies to encode motion. Some use particles or “satellites” to describe a path of motion (Satellite-framed or S-languages like English), while others...

Understanding visual narratives requires readers to track dimensions of time, spatial location, and characters across a sequence. Previous work has found situational changes...