Title
Robotic calligraphy - Learning how to write single strokes of Chinese and Japanese characters.
Abstract
A robot testbed for writing Chinese and Japanese calligraphy characters is presented. Single strokes of the calligraphy characters are represented in a database and initialized with a scanned reference image and a manually chosen initial drawing spline. A learning procedure uses visual feedback to analyze each new iteration of the drawn stroke and updates the drawing spline such that every subsequent drawn stroke becomes more similar to the reference image. The learning procedure can be performed either in simulation, using a simple brush model to create simulated images of the strokes, or with a real robot arm equipped with a calligraphy brush and a camera that captures images of the drawn strokes. Results from both simulations and experiments with the robot arm are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IROS.2013.6696583
IROS
Keywords
Field
DocType
iterative methods,learning (artificial intelligence),manipulators,splines (mathematics),Chinese calligraphy characters,Japanese calligraphy characters,calligraphy brush,drawing spline,learning procedure,real robot arm,robotic calligraphy,simple brush model,visual feedback
Spline (mathematics),Computer vision,Robotic arm,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Reference image,Artificial intelligence,Calligraphy,Robot,Kanji
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
3
0.45
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Mueller130.45
Nico Huebel231.12
Markus Waibel31376.34
Raffaello D'andrea41592162.96