Paper Info
Title
Learning the traditional art of Chinese calligraphy via three-dimensional reconstruction and assessment
Abstract
The traditional art of Chinese calligraphy, reflecting the wisdom of the grass-roots community, is the soul of Chinese culture. Just like many other types of craftsmanship, it is part of the historical heritage and is worth conserving, from generation to generation. Since the movements of an ink brush are in a 3D style when Chinese calligraphy is written, they embody “The Power of Beauty,” comprising various reflectance properties and rough-surface geometry. To truly understand the powerful significance and beauty of the art of Chinese calligraphy, in this paper, a 3D calligraphy reconstruction method, based on Photometric Stereo, is designed to capture the detailed appearance of the calligraphy's 3D surface geometry. For assessment, an Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is applied for registration of 3D intrinsic shapes between the Chinese calligraphy and the calligraphy fans’ handwriting. Through matching these two sets of calligraphy characters, the designed system can give a score to the handwriting of a user. Experiments have been performed on Chinese calligraphy from different historical dynasties to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, and experimental results show that the developed system is useful and provides a convenient method of calligraphy appreciation and assessment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TMM.2019.2937187
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Three-dimensional displays,Surface reconstruction,Solid modeling,Image reconstruction,Geometry,Art,Ink
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1520-9210
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muwei Jian123530.97
Junyu Dong239377.68
Maoguo Gong32676172.02
Hui Yu412821.50
Liqiang Nie52975131.85
Yilong Yin660042.06
Kin-Man Lam71911141.72