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Numerous collection of Chinese calligraphy is a valuable civilization legacy. However, it is very difficult to employ any existing techniques to retrieve them, because similarity measure is not a trivial problem for Chinese calligraphic characters. In this paper, a novel method is presented to retrieve Chinese calligraphic character images using approximate correspondence point algorithm. In this method, shapes of calligraphic characters are represented by their contour points. We first compute point contexts and find approximate point correspondence in the other character, and then retrieve calligraphic characters according to their accumulated matching cost. Finally, the efficiency of our algorithm is demonstrated by a preliminary experiment.
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Zhuang, Y., Zhang, X., Wu, J., Lu, X. (2004). Retrieval of Chinese Calligraphic Character Image. In: Aizawa, K., Nakamura, Y., Satoh, S. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004. PCM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30541-5_3
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