A Style Transformation Method for Printed Chinese Characters

摘要

In recent years, deformation transformation techniques have been applied to the recognition, object matching, and image correction of Chinese characters. In this study, we propose a novel deformation transformation approach that can change the style of printed Chinese characters (PCCs). We believe that each category of PCC has the same topological structure and can be considered a type of deformable object. Therefore, we can change the style of each PCC through some suitable deformations. To this end, we propose a 1-D deformable transformation method that can deform PCCs into different styles. Such a style transformation method will not only enrich Chinese character fonts, but also enlarge a given database so as to represent more variations than the original.