Visual perception of materials that make up objects has been gaining increasing interest. Most previous studies on visual material-category perception have used stimuli with rich information, e.g., color, shape, and texture. This article analyzes the image features of the material representations in Japanese “manga” comics, which are composed of line drawings and are typically printed in black and white. In this study, the authors first constructed a manga-material database by collecting 799 material images that gave consistent material impressions to observers. The manga-material data from the database were used to fully train “CaffeNet,” a convolutional neural network (CNN). Then, the authors visualized training-image patches corresponding to the top-
Takahiko Horiuchi, Yuma Saito, Keita Hirai, "Analysis of Material Representation of Manga Line Drawings using Convolutional Neural Networks" in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2017, pp 040404-1 - 040404-10, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2017.61.4.040404