A web comic discovery tool that solves the copyright infringement problem

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	A web comic discovery tool that solves the copyright infringement problem (justthefirstframe.com)
	9 points by hkuo 5188 days ago

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joshu 5187 days ago

This is totally clever.

I bet this is pretty automatable, too.

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swah 5187 days ago

This should be pretty trivial with OpenCV etc.

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hkuo 5187 days ago

Thanks joshu and swah! I'm actually the creator of the site and am doing this completely manually. I've explored here and there on how I might automate it, though it all looks a bit daunting. I hadn't heard of OpenCV, and I will definitely explore this further. Thank you so much!

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joshu 5187 days ago

OpenCV is just an API, might be a lot of work.

I think you want to do a Hough transform and then look for long vertical lines.

But I'm no expert.

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apu 5186 days ago

Unfortunately, nothing in computer vision's ever as trivial as you might imagine, or as it should be.

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joshu 5186 days ago

True. But I bet you'd get 80% of the way there with canny + hough.

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