NDLI: Automatic shape morphing for Chinese characters

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Xiao, Jianguo Lian, Zhouhui
Abstract	How to automatically implement shape morphing for Chinese characters represented in different styles is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel method to solve this problem. Specifically, we first generate the shape template, which includes a skeleton, strokes, key points, and connection triangles, for every character in a standard Chinese font (i.e., Kaiti) library. Then, we decompose two given Chinese characters into strokes to establish an accurate correspondence between them by applying the Coherent Point Drift (CPD) algorithm to achieve non-rigid point set registration between each character and the corresponding template. Finally, we construct an isomorphic triangulation for the source and target character shapes, and then apply as-rigid-as-possible shape interpolation on these two triangle meshes. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
Ending Page	4
Page Count	4
Starting Page	1
File Format	PDF AVI
ISBN	9781450319157
DOI	10.1145/2407746.2407748
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-11-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Shape morphing Correspondence Chinese characters
Content Type	Video Text
Resource Type	Article

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Automatic shape morphing for Chinese characters