A Research on the Stroke-Segment-Mesh (SSM) Glyph Depiction Method of Chinese Character

There are defects in the current depiction method of computerized Chinese character glyph, especially on the aspect of feature selection and computation for comparing glyphs, which cause many problems, such as the input of wrongly written characters, variant forms of characters in ancient literatures, and combined-characters and automatic glyph comparing. This research offers an application-oriented depiction method of Chinese character glyph, which possesses the characteristics of suitable granular degree, ambiguity-free, and standardized basic units and which can be applied in the depiction of any possible different glyph skeletons (including wrongly written characters, variant form of a Chinese character, and combined-characters). This research also offers the classifications of basic stokes, compound stokes, algorithms of automatic stoke extraction and structural relation computation based on stroke-segments-mesh depiction of glyphs. The experiment indicates that this method can be applied in the descriptive input of any glyph and computation for comparing either the whole or part of glyphs.