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Extraction and Merging of Stroke Structure of Chinese Characters

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Chinese characters are complex graphics with strokes as the basic unit. In order to analyze their structure, stroke extraction is the first step. This paper presents an automatic extraction method of Chinese character strokes, which regards the extraction of Chinese character strokes as finding the optimal path and merging. Based on the superpixel network, the path network is applied to enumerate all possible stroke segments. Then, the repeated strokes are merged according to the Intersection over Union. Experimental results show that the method can effectively extract accurate strokes and obtain single strokes with high-level semantic features and complete information.

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This work was supported in part by the University Innovation Team Project of Jinan (2019GXRC015), and in part by Key Science & Technology Innovation Project of Shandong Province (2019JZZY010324).

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, China

    Jian Shu

  2. Artificial Intelligence Institute (School of Information Science and Engineering), University of Jinan, No. 336, Jinan, China

    Yuehui Chen & Yaou Zhao

  3. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Based Intelligent Computing (School of Information Science and Engineering), University of Jinan, No. 336, Jinan, China

    Yi Cao

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

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  2. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

    Vassilis Athitsos

  3. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

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  4. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  5. School of Engineering and Computing, University of Durham, Durham, Durham, UK

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Shu, J., Chen, Y., Cao, Y., Zhao, Y. (2021). Extraction and Merging of Stroke Structure of Chinese Characters. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90439-5_13

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