TY - JOUR
T1 - Artistic information extraction from Chinese calligraphy works via Shear-Guided filter
AU - Xu, Pengfei
AU - Zheng, Xia
AU - Chang, Xiaojun
AU - Miao, Qiguang
AU - Tang, Zhanyong
AU - Chen, Xiaojiang
AU - Fang, Dingyi
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - Chinese calligraphy is a unique visual art, and is still emitting fascinating artistic brilliance and charm. The artistic beauty of Chinese calligraphy is constituted by two elements, i.e., form and spirit, which attract continual attentions by calligraphy artists. In this paper, we present Shear-Guided filter to extract the artistic information. Shear-Guided filter is designed by combining the shear transformation and the guided filter. It has both the edge-preserving smoothing property from the guided filter and the linear multidirectional property from the shear transformation. Shear-Guided filter can extract more spirit information from the calligraphy images, especially in the half-dry strokes. Furthermore, the previous evaluation parameters consider all pixels equally, which is against the truth. Here we put forward three new parameters to solve this issue. Finally, experiments show that Shear-Guided filter can extract the information of form and spirit more accurately, and the new evaluation parameters have better performances in evaluation.
AB - Chinese calligraphy is a unique visual art, and is still emitting fascinating artistic brilliance and charm. The artistic beauty of Chinese calligraphy is constituted by two elements, i.e., form and spirit, which attract continual attentions by calligraphy artists. In this paper, we present Shear-Guided filter to extract the artistic information. Shear-Guided filter is designed by combining the shear transformation and the guided filter. It has both the edge-preserving smoothing property from the guided filter and the linear multidirectional property from the shear transformation. Shear-Guided filter can extract more spirit information from the calligraphy images, especially in the half-dry strokes. Furthermore, the previous evaluation parameters consider all pixels equally, which is against the truth. Here we put forward three new parameters to solve this issue. Finally, experiments show that Shear-Guided filter can extract the information of form and spirit more accurately, and the new evaluation parameters have better performances in evaluation.
KW - Artistic information extraction
KW - Chinese calligraphy works
KW - Evaluation parameters
KW - Shear-Guided filter
KW - Spirit information
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84991822030&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jvcir.2016.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jvcir.2016.07.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991822030
VL - 40
SP - 791
EP - 807
JO - Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
JF - Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
SN - 1047-3203
IS - Part B
ER -