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Xia-Fen Zhang, Yue-Ting Zhuang, Jiang-Qin Wu, Fei Wu. Hierarchical Approximate Matching for Retrieval of Chinese Historical Calligraphy Character[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2007, 22(4): 633-640.
Citation: Xia-Fen Zhang, Yue-Ting Zhuang, Jiang-Qin Wu, Fei Wu. Hierarchical Approximate Matching for Retrieval of Chinese Historical Calligraphy Character[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2007, 22(4): 633-640.
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Hierarchical Approximate Matching for Retrieval of Chinese Historical Calligraphy Character

  • 1Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China2College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 200135, China

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  • Received Date: August 09, 2005
  • Revised Date: February 25, 2007
  • Published Date: July 14, 2007
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  • As historical Chinese calligraphy works are beingdigitized, the problem of retrieval becomes a new challenge. But,currently no OCR technique can convert calligraphy characterimages into text, nor can the existing Handwriting Character Recognitionapproach does not work for it. This paper proposes a novel approach toefficiently retrieving Chinese calligraphy characters on the basis ofsimilarity: calligraphy character image is represented by a collectionof discriminative features, and high retrieval speed with reasonableeffectiveness is achieved. First, calligraphy characters that have nopossibility similar to the query are filtered out step by step bycomparing the character complexity, stroke density and strokeprotrusion. Then, similar calligraphy characters are retrieved andranked according to their matching cost produced by approximate shapematch. In order to speed up the retrieval, we employed high dimensional datastructure --- PK-tree. Finally, the efficiency of the algorithm isdemonstrated by a preliminary experiment with 3012 calligraphy characterimages.
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