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Prior knowledge of Chinese calligraphy is modeled in this paper, and the hierarchical relationship of strokes and radicals is represented by a novel five layer framework. Calligraphist’s unique calligraphy skill is analyzed and his particular strokes, radicals and layout patterns provide raw element for the proposed five layers. The criteria of visual aesthetics based on Marr’s vision assumption are built for the proposed algorithm of automatic generation of Chinese character. The Bayesian statistics is introduced to characterize the character generation process as a Bayesian dynamic model, in which, parameters to translate, rotate and scale strokes, radicals are controlled by the state equation, as well as the proposed visual aesthetics is employed by the measurement equation. Experimental results show the automatically generated characters have almost the same visual acceptance compared to calligraphist’s artwork.
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Shi, C., Xiao, J., Jia, W., Xu, C. (2012). Automatic Generation of Chinese Character Based on Human Vision and Prior Knowledge of Calligraphy. In: Zhou, M., Zhou, G., Zhao, D., Liu, Q., Zou, L. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. NLPCC 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34456-5_3
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