DocumentCode :
3526011
Title :
A robot for classifying Chinese calligraphic types and styles
Author :
Yuandong Sun ; Ning Ding ; Huihuan Qian ; Yangsheng Xu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. & Autom. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
fYear :
2013
fDate :
6-10 May 2013
Firstpage :
4279
Lastpage :
4284
Abstract :
As one of the most unique types of art in Chinese culture, nowadays Chinese calligraphy is attracting increasing interests from researchers. It will be a big step if we have a robot to write Chinese calligraphy, especially in various styles, and it will form a bridge to combine science with art directly. However, there are so many different types and styles in Chinese calligraphy, and to distinguish them is the most basic quality to a green hand, but it is a big challenge for a robot to do so. For the lack of exploration about this, we conduct a lot of experiments to help the robot to accomplish it automatically. We first propose a parametric representation of calligraphic characters, and then adopt the Mahalanobis distance for similarity measurement and classification. The average accuracies of classifying types and styles of the Chinese calligraphy are 96.36% and 95.61% respectively. During the experiments, some interesting phenomena are discovered through similarity measure. Meanwhile, the parametric representation also has some potential applications, such as defining aesthetic grading standards of calligraphy and synthesizing calligraphy. Based on our research, the calligraphy robot can tell which style of calligraphy it sees for mimicking.
Keywords :
art; image classification; image representation; intelligent robots; Chinese calligraphic style classification; Chinese calligraphic type classification; Chinese culture; Mahalanobis distance; art; calligraphy robot; mimicking; parametric calligraphic character representation; similarity classification; similarity measurement; Accuracy; Brushes; Measurement; Robots; Seals; Standards; Vectors;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Karlsruhe
ISSN :
1050-4729
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5641-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631182
Filename :
6631182
Link To Document :
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