An interactive and generative approach for Chinese Shanshui painting document

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Abstract

Chinese Shanshui is a landscape painting document mainly drawing mountain and water, which is popular in Chinese culture. However, it is very challenging to create this by general people. In this paper, we propose an interactive and generative approach to automatically generate the Chinese Shanshui painting documents based on users' input, where the users only need to sketch simple lines to represent their ideal landscape without any professional Shanshui painting skills. This sketch-to-Shanshui translation is optimized by the model of cycle Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). To evaluate the proposed approach, we collected a large set of both sketch data and Chinese Shanshui painting data to train the model of cycle-GAN, and developed an interactive system called Shanshui-DaDA (i.e., Design and Draw with AI) to generate Chinese Shanshui painting documents in real-time. The experimental results show that this system can generate satisfied Chinese Shanshui painting documents by general users.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages819-824
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728128610
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019
Event15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 20 Sept 201925 Sept 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period20/09/1925/09/19

Keywords

  • Chinese Shanshui
  • Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Image-to-image Translation
  • Interactive system
  • Sketch-to-Shanshui Translation

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