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In this paper, we propose a method to recover strokes from offline handwritten Chinese characters. The proposed method employs a fully convolutional network (FCN) to estimate the writing order of connected components in offline Chinese character images and a multi-task FCN to estimate the writing order and directions of strokes in each connected component. Online dataset CASIA-OLHWDB1.0 from the CASIA database is hired as the training set. Because the network produces discontinuous strokes, we refine the estimated writing orders using a graph cut (GC), in which the estimated directions are used for calculation of smoothness term. Experimental results with test dataset of CASIA-OLHWDB1.0tst demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H06288.
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Wang, Y., Sonogashira, M., Hashimoto, A., Iiyama, M. (2020). Two-Stage Fully Convolutional Networks for Stroke Recovery of Handwritten Chinese Character. In: Palaiahnakote, S., Sanniti di Baja, G., Wang, L., Yan, W. (eds) Pattern Recognition. ACPR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12047. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41299-9_25
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