Automatic shape morphing for Chinese characters

  • Authors:
  • Zhouhui Lian;Jianguo Xiao

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University, Beijing, PR China;Peking University, Beijing, PR China

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Technical Briefs
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

How to automatically implement shape morphing for Chinese characters represented in different styles is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel method to solve this problem. Specifically, we first generate the shape template, which includes a skeleton, strokes, key points, and connection triangles, for every character in a standard Chinese font (i.e., Kaiti) library. Then, we decompose two given Chinese characters into strokes to establish an accurate correspondence between them by applying the Coherent Point Drift (CPD) algorithm to achieve non-rigid point set registration between each character and the corresponding template. Finally, we construct an isomorphic triangulation for the source and target character shapes, and then apply as-rigid-as-possible shape interpolation on these two triangle meshes. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.