MANPU2016 Invited Talk: Manga Generator, a future of interactive manga media

Manga Generator, a future of interactive manga media

MANPU2016: Invited Talk The First International Workshop on

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Akihiko SHIRAI, Ph.DKanagawa Institute of Technology, JAPAN

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Akihiko SHIRAi in 3 min “YumeNaviLive”, pitch talk for high school students.

Akihiko SHIRAI, Ph.D (Engineering)Department of Information Media, Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT), Japan

Chair of Laval Virtual ReVolution (2006~)Executive Commttiee of International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (2002~)ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Youth Program Liaison

AKIHIKO SHIRAI, Ph.D in Engineering, has obtained a bachelor of Photo Engineering and master of Image Processing from Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics. Afterwards he worked for Canon and Criterion as a game development consultant to distribute RenderWare, a multi-platform graphics middleware for the game industry until 2001. He went back to academia to study intelligent systems and obtained a Ph.D. in the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan in 2004 with research concerning the “Tangible Playroom”, an entertainment system for young children using haptics, a floor screen and a physics engine. He was a R&D researcher at NHK-ES in Japan, focusing on the next generation’s TV production environment before moving to ENSAM Presence & Innovation Laboratory in France from 2004 to 2007 for R&D of a Virtual Reality theme park project. He worked for National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo Japan, as a science communicator and exhibition planner from 2008 to 2010. Starting from 2010, he works in the Information Media Department at Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) as an associate professor.

Manga Generator,a future of interactive manga media* Motivation from Student competition project to International new media* Technology of Manga Generator* IVRC and Laval Virtual* Entertainment systems and Sensory motor play

* Research, Results and Deployments* Collaboration with professional manga* Player analysis* Contents toolkit

* Future* MGV: Multiplex Digital Signage* Next generation as “Interactive Manga Media”

Manga Generator Project

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Motivation of Manga Generator

• Entertainment system using VR technology.

• Enjoyable to people for all.

• Exploring future of “media mixed” creation.

• Tell Japanese manga culture to the world.

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Japanese manga culture

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Japanese manga culture• “Shonen” category for boy’s

Ø “Dive into the manga world” is a boy’s dream.Ø Children play “Make-Believe play” as a hero.

• Animated manga (Anime)Ø It’s a quite big media. However,

it is not an interactive content.Imagination is not needed for audience

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Daiki UMEDA“Real-time manga-like depiction based on interpretation

of bodily movements by using kinect”, 2012

Related Research“Comic Chat”, 1996“Comi Po!”, 2010“Manga camera”, 2012Masaki Hayashi“Research on automatic manga generation based on TVML script”, 2002

Prototypealpha

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Version

beta2

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RC1

LavalVersion

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2012/8 2012/9 2012/10 2012/11

・Manga-like Visual・ AutomaticLayoutAdjuster

・ Setastory・ DynamicMoodSelector

・Set a multi-story

*IVRC2012semifinal

*IVRC2012final

*TV Appearance：TBS

*TV Appearance：TV TOKYO

Road mapBetterexpressionusinguserposture

2013/3

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Scenario「Break the WALL」「Crisis of the Earth」「American Comics taste」

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Very simple and controllable mathematics, it can perform in real time (30fps or more).

Kinemotion

KinEmotion

* KinEmotion: context controllable emotional motion analysis method for interactive cartoon generator, SIGGRAPH '13 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 PostersArticle No. 75

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KinEmotionBetter expression using user posture

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LAVAL VIRTUAL Version

•Located is Laval city

•Linking to Facebook

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Contents design

•Laval Virtual 2013

•Touristic promotion

•TV program

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Awarded

• IVRC2012(International virtual reality contest)

• Asia Digital Art Award

• Asia student creative competition

• Laval Virtual 2013 Award

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Conclusion in 2013

• Entertainment system using VR technology

• Enjoyable to people for all ages

• The future of the media mixed creation

• New promotion system

• Tell the world of Japanese manga culture




What is IVRC?

* International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest establish in 1993 by Prof. Susumu Tachi

* Contest of interaction and virtual reality, which fuses art and technology

* Honors the greatest Virtual Reality and Interactive works of students

* New education system through contest

What is IVRC?

* Organized by Virtual Reality Society of Japan

* Supported by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology

* Ambassade de France au japon, Service pour la Science et la Technologie

* Held at Miraikan, National science museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Virtual Reality Society of Japanhttp://www.vrsj.org/

IVRC: contest of the students, by the students, for the students

l IVRC is the acronym of “International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest”, which has been held since 1993 and is the contest of Interactive products using advanced technologies such as virtual reality and robots. Our English name changed for internationalization in 2004, because we began to invite awarded teams from the French VR contest “Laval Virtual”.

l When you hear the words such as “Virtual Reality” and “robot”, you should feel that special expensive machines are necessary to realize them. However, there are many ideas which can be actualized only with handmade machines. The main purpose of this contest is for participants to gain deeper understanding of and familiarity with interactive technologies through activities such as planning interactive systems, making devices themselves, and improving quality of their contents.

l IVRC has not only the function of contest but also the function of education. It aims to construct the new education system of the 21st century to develop excellent human resources, who can think, learn, and work by themselves.

planning technology design Teammanagement

Call for Submission

Deadline of submission

2nd stage, Demonstration

Final stage, DemonstrationSIGGRAPH/ Laval Virtual

Online submission

Improvement phase

1st stage, Paper reviewDevelopment phase

IVRC Flow Chart

4 +1 projects

Annual Conference of VRSJ

DCEXPO: Digital Content Expo

April

Late June or Early July

September

October

* Semi final at the annual conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (9-11th September, Tokyo)Demonstration in academic conference

* Grand final in Digital Contents EXPO 201522-25th October, Miraikan, Tokyo.Demonstration in Public

* U-18: Youth section* International Video Selection for the final stage

The First Presence at ACM SIGGRAPH 2002

* IVRC Committee helps the champion team submit to SIGGRAPH as a reward to the winner.

Ø“Virtual Chambara”, SIGGRAPH2002

“Virtual Chambara”, SIGGRAPH 2002

History of IVRC Presence at SIGGRAPH

* 2003 THE DIMENSION BOOK* 2004 Fragra / Dis-Tansu* 2005 Straw-like user interface / Kobito: Virtual Brownies / Ton2

* 2006 bubble cosmos / INVISIBLE ~The Shadow Chaser~ / Powder Screen: A Virtual Materializer …..

History of IVRC Presence at SIGGRAPH* 2007 BYU-BYU-View / CoGAME* 2008 Ants in the Pants / Landscape Bartender* 2009 Baby type robot “YOTARO” / Back to the mouth /

Funbrella: making rain fun* 2010 Haptic Canvas* 2011 Mommy Tummy* 2015 Childhood/ vibroSkate

International Cooperation with Laval Virtual

“The winner of the IVRC Award in France will be invited to the Tokyostage of the IVRC in Japan as a challenger. Similarly, the winner of theLaval Virtual Award in Japan will be invited to the final stage of VirtualFantasy, category “Demos”, student competition of Laval Virtual, inFrance as a challenger. Conditions of invitation will be defined every yearby each part of this agreement.”

Agreement on International Cooperationat Laval Virtual 2004

IVRC and Laval Virtual will maintain an award partnership for three years (2004-2007): the Laval Virtual Award at the IVRC in Japan, the IVRC Award at “Laval Virtual’s Le Village de la Creations” in France.

J.F. Fontaine(Laval Virtual)

Prof. S. Tachi(IVRC)

International Cooperation with ETC, CMU

“The best work certified by CMU among other works created as student project will be invited for the final contest of IVRC. The invited work will be assessed in the final contest in the same way as other selected works in the preliminary contest of IVRC and will be entitled to receive each award of IVRC.”

Partnershipin SIGGRAPH 2010

Don MarinelliExecutive producer of ETC

http://ivrc.net/

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) and International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC), in recognition of the growing importance of the roles Virtual Reality and Entertainment Technology play in the 21st century, have come to the agreement:

Agreement on International Cooperation in Virtual Reality and Entertainment Technology

Michelle Macau(ETC) Ambassador

Agent for Donald MarinelliExecutive Producer of ETC

Prof. S. Tachi(IVRC)

3D moves in 30-year cyclesVR moves 10 years after３D crazes

1st3DCraze

（the1950s)

DawnofVR

(the1960s)

1940 1960 1980 2000 20201920

Dawnof3D

（the1920s)

2nd3DCraze

（the1980s)

3rd3DCraze

（the2010s)

2ndVRWave(the2020s)

?1stVRWave(the1990s)

movie movie

Theme-park

computergameTV

movie movie

Virtual Reality in the 1990s* 1989 VPL Research Data Glove and Eyephone. “Virtual reality" was first used.* 1990 Santa Barbara Conference (The Engineering Foundation)

Virtually all the researchers were summoned.* 1991 ICAT (International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence) was

held in Japan.* 1992 Committee on Virtual Reality was established in National Research Council.

Its report was published in 1995.* 1993 IVR（Industrial Virtual Realty) was held in Japan.* 1993 VRAIS (Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium) and Research

Frontiers in Virtual Reality were held. They gathered together to form IEEE Virtual Reality Conference.

* 1993 IVRC（International Virtual Realty Contest) was held.* 1996 VRSJ (Virtual Reality Society of Japan) was established.* 2001 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference was held in Japan.* 2008 National Academy of Engineering (NSF) announced 14 grand engineering

challenges for the 21st century on February 15, 2008. Enhance Virtual Reality is chosen as one of the 14 challenges.

23 years… * More than 200 projects have been realized through 23 IVRCs

including 21 projects selected as SIGGRAPH E-Tech.

* Average 5 persons for each project mean over 1,000 persons have deeply experienced and understood VR!

* IVRC students become staffs, and staffs now become world famous professors, designers, creators, and engineers.

IVRC Alumni Members

21 CENTURY'S GRAND ENGINEERING CHALLENGES

* National Academy of Engineering announced 14 grand engineering challenges for the 21st century on February 15, 2008. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/

* The final choices fall into four themes that are essential for humanity to flourish -- sustainability, health, reducing vulnerability, and joy of living.

* Tremendous advances in quality of life have come from improved technology in areas such as farming and manufacturing. If we focus our effort on the important grand challenges of our age, we can hugely improve the future.

* Enhance Virtual Reality is chosen one of the 14 challenges.

Second VR Wave（the 2020s ？)VR Challenges

* Autostereoscopic Display* Haptic VR * Augmented Reality* Telexistence * Human Augmentation

3D moves in 30-year cyclesVR moves 10 years after３D crazes

1st3DCraze

（the1950s)

DawnofVR

(the1960s)

1940 1960 1980 2000 20201920

Dawnof3D

（the1920s)

2nd3DCraze

（the1980s)

3rd3DCraze

（the2010s)

2ndVRWave(the2020s)

?1stVRWave(the1990s)

movie movie

Theme-park

computergameTV

movie movie

Next-generation“INTERACTIVE

CONTENTS”

Laval Virtual

Laval Virtual

Academic Conference “ACM VRIC”Award, Competition, Public Day

* Keynotes* Workshop + Aural Presentation

ACM VRIC: Virtual Reality International Conference

Dr. Pattie Maes, MIT Media LaboratoryPr Alain Berthoz, College de FranceVirtual avatars and real brains: how do they interact? AR and VR for learning and collaboration

Dr. Oliver Bimber, Johannes Kepler Univ. LinzLight-Field Technology: A Revolution to Imaging and Display

Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Emerging Analytics Center, University of Arkansas at Little RockBeyond Fun and Games: VR as a Tool of the Trade

Christine Perey, AR for Enterprise AllianceThe Future of Work with Augmented Reality

Dr. Skip RizzoDirector for Medical Virtual Reality Institute for Creative

Technologies - Research Professor USC Davis School of Gerontology and USC Keck School of Medicine Department of

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Beyond Video Games:A Virtual Reality Revolution in Behavioral Health

* Workshop + Aural Presentation


Special Session on Friday14:00-14:20 Opening Address “Real-Virtuality”, Prof. Akihiko SHIRAI (KAIT)14:20-14:30 “IVRC to Laval Virtual / Jack and the Beanstalk”, Mr. Shota SUGIMOTO, (Univ Keio)14:30-14:50 “Embodied Media”, Prof. Kouta MINAMIZAWA (Univ keio)14:50-15:00 “Metamorphosis Hand: Interactive Experience of Embodying Virtually Transformed Hands”, NamiOgawa (Univ of Tokyo)15:00-15:30 “VR to Superhuman Sports” Prof. Masahiko INAMI (Univ of Tokyo)15:30-16:00 Round table and debate, exchanges with the audience


http://superhuman-sports.org/




[definition] Entertainment system is System which affects to human amusement.Video game, museum exhibition, entertainment VR, media arts, e-sports, broadcasting, social network…

1. Device and/or System2. Service and/or Contents 3. Evaluation methods

Research in Entertainment system

* Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development.

* Sensorimotor play

* Symbolic play* Rule Play

“Sensory-motor Play”

Revolution




Research, Results and Deployments*Collaboration with professional manga*Player analysis*Contents toolkit

Manga Generator Tottori version

Tottori Manga Kingdom

Player Analysis in TEPIA permanent exhibition

Contents toolkit

In Taiwan

* Hoping Jones versionin Taiwan Manga Expo

Concept: Common issue in living room

* ExPixel is a Pixel-Shader Technology that can show multiple images on one screen at same time.

* ExPixel* Extended Pixel* X-Pol (FPR for 3D)* Extra Image…

What is ExPixel

Related Works: Multiplex display* Direction based separation* “Bois-Clair” (Gaspar Antoine, 1692)* “Vari-Vue” (Victor Anderson, 1962)* “Lumisight Table”(2005), ”UlteriorScape” (2008) by Kakehi

* Time/Shutter based technologies* “Snared illumination” (fakespace lab, 2004)* “ThirdEye” (Pranav Mistry, 2009)* “SimulView” (SONY, 2010-)

* Polarization based technologies* “FairyFinder” (Hachiya, 2005)* “Mysterious Pond”, “A visibility control system for collaborative digital

table” (Kitamura, Sakurai. 2009)* Hidden but not shown for naked eyes* Patent: JPA2005-092227 (Semiconductor Energy Lab, 2005)

*Adding a new value of 3D devices.

*Realizing multiplex-hidden imagery on a consumer 3D flat panel without any hardware modification.

*Providing content creation environment for wider creators.

Challenge

Scritter to ExPixel: Scritter

NAGANO, K., UTSUGI, T., HIRANO, M., HAMADA, T., SHIRAI,A., AND NAKAJIMA, M. 2010.A new ”multiplex content” displaying system compatible with current 3d projection technology.

In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Posters, ACM, New York,NY, USA, SIGGRAPH ’10, 79:1–79:1.

Multiplex bytwo projectors.

Scritter to ExPixel: ScritterH

Wataru FUJIMURA, Yukua KOIDE, Robert SONGER, Takahiro HAYAKAWA, Akihiko SHIRAI, Kazuhisa YANAKA,"2x3D: Real-Time Shader for Simultaneous 2D/3D Hybrid Theater", ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2012 Emerging Technologies, Singapore, 2012

Hidden imagery with two projectors.

ScritterH, Projector based hidden imagery

* Merge an arbitrary image A fornaked eyes and an image B thatyou would like to hide to generatea different image C and multiple-project B and C.

* Image A visible to naked eyes whileimage B with glasses.

* Figure from ScritterH project

* Naked eye: Left + Filter: Right.* It is Implemented as a GPU based shader.* Good for theater but not suitable for consumer usage.

2x3D: Hybrid 2D + 3D display

Wataru FUJIMURA, Yukua KOIDE, Robert SONGER, Takahiro HAYAKAWA, Akihiko SHIRAI, Kazuhisa YANAKA,"2x3D: Real-Time Shader for Simultaneous 2D/3D Hybrid Theater", ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2012 Emerging Technologies, Singapore, 2012

* Scritter/ScritterH doesn’t need synchronized devices. Only needs polarization filter to separate two channels.

*However, it still needs specific products such as DMD projector, polarization supported screen.

* It is difficult to prepare two projectors as a stuck.

ScritterH, Projector based hidden imagery

Algorithm of ExPixel (1/3)

With a circular polarization filter

Contrast compression


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Inversed gamma correction

* Obtain image C with considering display gamma.

Inversed gamma correction

c.rgb = (𝑎' − 𝑏')+,

gamma correction



Even odd selection

Line-by-line: Even odd selection

RL

Image A

Image B

RLRLRL

Display

P polarization

S polarization

P polarization

S polarization

P polarization

S polarization

Normal Use: Parallax imagesExPixe Use: Arbitrary images

Line-by-line: Even odd selection

Only even lines Only odd lines

* Everybody can make multiplex hidden content with Unity 3D

Content Creation tool

1) Import Package 2) Set Images 3) Run!!

Multi-language presentation

Naked Channel (Janpanese)

Hidden Channel (English)

UbiCode

Naked Channel (Advertisement)

Hidden Channel (QR code)

POLAR: Physical Optical Layered AR

AR marker on the main content

POLAR: Physical Optical Layered AR

AR marker on the hidden channel

Using Scene Naked Eye Hidden Eye Experience

Presentation Listener Presenter Only presenter can check scenario.

Classroom No hint Hint available Show hints for student who needs hint.

Museum Children Adult Explications for different age.

Shop Non member

Member Show special price for registered member.

Sightseeing Children Adult Explications for different interests.

Medical Patient Doctor Supplementary information which should not be shown to patients.

Municipal services

Localresidents

People from abroad

Communication tool between domestic people and foreigner.

Various applications

* Converter* XNA

* Static image* Video

* Unity* Static image* Video* Game * AR* Presentation* Player Shader model 3.0 Converter

* Processing

* PHP* Static image

* FPGA Hardware

Content creation tools

*Realizing multiplex-hidden imagery on a consumer 3D flat panel without any hardware modification.

*Providing content creation environment for wider creators.

*Adding a new value of 3D devices.

Conclusion

*Why it cancel the hidden image while canceling image and hidden image are not on the same line?

*Resolution of display is very high that people can’t recognize pixels.* It is not recognized as a pixel,

(because it’s same size as pixels!!)

ExPixel = Contrast compression + sub pixel


Before After

* Contrast* It needs to reduce each image’s contrast according to current algorithm.

* Resolution* Vertical resolution became half, but horizontal resolution can be kept actual amount.

* Image with black background for Naked Image* After pass contrast compression step, black color level 0 is pushed up to gray color level 127.

Weak Points

Contents toolkit

Contents toolkit




Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel« Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik » (Lectures on Aesthetics) 1835–81. Architecture2. Sculpture3. Painting4. Music & Dance

(=performing art)5. Poetry

Definition of “Arts”

Modern philosophy in https://fr.wiktionary.org/6. Photography7. Cinema8. Television & Drama (=Broadcasting)9. Bande dessinée, Manga, Comic10. Video Game

Prehistric Manga Media

Manga Generator Pro by Progmind Inc

* We would mention thanks to all contributors of Manga Generator project, Yukua KOIDE, WataruFUJIMURA, Yuto NARA, GenkiKUNITOMI, Kosaku OGAWA, Ayumi ANDO, Ryo OKAMOTO, Hisataka SUZUKI and Rex HSIEH.

* The project also continue parallel with “Manga Generator Pro” by Progmind Inc.

* www.progmind.jp/service/manga-generator/

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS




Q: Original Authors says yes for Manga Generator?A: We have afraid with our respect for the authors but authors are already trusted their publishers and Photoshop toolkit helped the understanding.

Q: Dynamic scenario is possible?A: Yes, “Manga Generator KAI” project successes to implement dynamic scenario.https://twitter.com/mangageneratorK

Discussion from audiences