Chinese brush calligraphy is a valuable civilization legacy and a high art of scholarship. It is still popular in Chinese banners, newspaper mastheads, university names, and celebration gifts. There are Web sites that try to help people enjoy and learn Chinese calligraphy. However, there lacks advanced services such as content-based retrieval or vivid writing process simulation for calligraphy ...

BACKGROUND Chinese calligraphy handwriting is the practice of traditional Chinese brush writing, researches found calligraphy had therapeutic effects on certain diseases, some authors argued that calligraphy might have relaxation effect. OBJECTIVES This study was to compare the effects of calligraphy handwriting with those of progressive muscle relaxation and imagery training in Chinese Nasop...

A style-consistent calligraphy tablet designing approach is proposed in this paper. The layout of the tablet is calculated firstly. The calligraphy characters are retrieved from the ones written by the specific calligrapher, while the style-consistency calligraphy character synthesis approach is applied to synthesize the non-existent ones. Finally, these characters are adjusted so that their st...

Paper collections of historical calligraphy objects in Libraries and museums are scanned into document images to serve the academic society. However, these digitized collections are in image format, lacking the technology to search by image content. This paper proposes a search engine for searching calligraphy image content. First, 2503 page images are segmented into characters and components. ...

In this work, we aim to transform handwritten Chinese characters into calligraphy style characters on a stroke-by-stroke basis. We extracted strokes from a set of handwritten characters by identifying the primary orientation of each stroke. We then adopted autoencoder and self-organizing maps to cluster the extracted strokes into 100 different groups. Using the neural networks obtained, we clus...

BACKGROUND This pilot study investigated the effects of calligraphy therapy on cognitive function in older Hong Kong Chinese people with mild cognitive impairment. METHODS A single-blind, randomized controlled trial was carried out in a sample of 31 adults aged 65 years or older with mild cognitive impairment. They were randomly assigned to receive either intensive calligraphy training led by...

As more and more works of calligraphy exists in digital library, traditional browsing and searching are not satisfying. This paper presents an algorithm for calligraphy style correlation discovery based on graph model. We first segment calligraphy work into characters, extract their texture features through 64 Gabor channels, and estimate the calligraphy style using a probability multi-class SV...

This article considers the problem of generating various calligraphy of Japanese character from some limited existing fonts. We propose a generation method based on the deformable contour model g-snake. By representing the outline of each stroke that makes of a character w i th a g-snake, we cast the generation problem into global and local deformation of g-snake under different control paramet...

This paper considers the problem of generating various calligraphy from some sample fonts. Our method is based on the deformable contour model g-snake. By representing the outline of each stroke of a character with a g-snake, we cast the generation problem into global and local deformation of g-snake under different control parameters, where the local deformation obeys the energy minimization p...