Style preserving Chinese character synthesis based on hierarchical representation of character

with English, and they are not suitable for Chinese character synthesis. In this paper, we propose an unified approach for modeling and synthesizing Chinese characters. Using a three-level hierarchical representation, each character is decomposed into basic components, which forms the stroke database and radical database. In the synthesis process, we use a wavelet-based approach to select proper strokes and radicals, and some aesthetic constraints are defined based on the relationships between components, then genetic algorithm is employed to search for the optimal results which best match the aesthetic constraints. Experimental results demonstrates the effectiveness of our method.