In this paper, a candidate selection method using a voting scheme is proposed for speeding up a on-line Chinese character recognition system. Three steps in this method are described as follows: First, several simple features are extracted from the input ink data, such as peripheral code. Then, the number of votes which denote the coarse matching scores between input features and 5401 reference...

At the successful staging of 20th Century Chinese Art organized by Christie’s, held in Hong Kong in November 2005, an auction record was set for a work by deceased artist Pan Yuliang (潘玉良, 1895-1977).1 Previously estimated to be between HK$33.5 million (approximately US$384,600-448,700) in value before the sale, the partially nude self-portrait of Pan fetched an impressive HK$9.64 million inste...

Western and Chinese artists have different traditions in representing the world in their paintings. While Western artists start since the Renaissance to represent the world with a central perspective and focus on salient objects in a scene, Chinese artists concentrate on context information in their paintings, mainly before the mid-19th century. We investigated whether the different typical rep...

The objective of this article is to check the reliability attribution medieval Chinese painting “Fanqi tu” (“Nomads”) Hu Huan (Hu Huai), an artist living at end 9 th – beginning 10 century. In order achieve objective, two tasks must be undertaken: 1) compare with other paintings by Huan, and 2) widen range comparisons including renwu genre artists close Huan’s paintings. Some compared pictures ...

This paper proposes a technique to animate a “Chinese style” painting given its image. We first extract descriptions of the brush strokes that hypothetically produced it. The key to the extraction process is the use of a brush stroke library, which is obtained by digitizing single brush strokes drawn by an experienced artist. The steps in our extraction technique are to first segment the input ...

It is worth repeating for the present argument the generic thesis that is the antagonist to this historiographic essay: “Chinese painting is concerned with revealing universal aspects of nature, not transient phenomena; it aims at reproducing inner-essences, not outer forms; it is fundamentally an art of line and distinct brushstrokes; it is much given ... to copying or imitating the past; it p...