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The automatic generation of Chinese outline font based on stroke extraction

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A new method to obtain spline outline description of Chinese font based on stroke extraction is presented. It has two primary advantages: (1) the quality of Chinese output is greatly improved; (2) the memory requirement is reduced. The method for stroke extraction is discussed in detail and experimental results are presented.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Xuzhou Teachers’ College, 221009, Xuzhou

    Xiaohu Ma

  2. State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou

    Zhigeng Pan

  3. Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, 210008, Nanjing

    Fuyan Zhang

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Ma Xiaohu received his M.S. degree from Nanjing University in 1991. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University. His current research interests are computer graphics, CAD and electric publishing.

Pan Zhigeng received his M.S. degree from Najing University in 1990 and the Ph.D. from Zhejiang University in 1993, respectively. His research fields include distributed computer graphics, multimedia, visualization in scientific computing, virtual reality and electronic publishing.

Zhang Fuyan received his bachelor degree from Nanjing University in 1969. Now he is a professor in Department of Computer Science and the director of Multimedia Institute, Nanjing University. His research forcuses on image processing, multimedia and electronic publishing.

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Ma, X., Pan, Z. & Zhang, F. The automatic generation of Chinese outline font based on stroke extraction. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 10, 42–52 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02939521

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