BACKGROUND This pilot study investigated the effects of calligraphy therapy on cognitive function in older Hong Kong Chinese people with mild cognitive impairment. METHODS A single-blind, randomized controlled trial was carried out in a sample of 31 adults aged 65 years or older with mild cognitive impairment. They were randomly assigned to receive either intensive calligraphy training led by...

As more and more works of calligraphy exists in digital library, traditional browsing and searching are not satisfying. This paper presents an algorithm for calligraphy style correlation discovery based on graph model. We first segment calligraphy work into characters, extract their texture features through 64 Gabor channels, and estimate the calligraphy style using a probability multi-class SV...

APPENDIX D TABLES 94 APPENDIX E FIGURES 100 BIBLIOGRAPHY 137 iii LIST OF TABLES Table D1. Frequency of portrait types by geographic region. 94 Table D2. Frequency of portraits of Livia in context by portrait type. 95 Table D3. Frequency of the portrait types of Livia by date. 96 Table D4. Type of city with portraits of Livia by region of the Roman Empire. 97 Table D5. Architectural context of t...

one of the special islamic arts, calligraphy was given a great reputation because of its association with quranic verses from its earliest appearance on kufic script. this spiritual support along with the utilization of kufic on craft decoration cause the advent of different kinds of kufic, and different cultures and eras flourished its vast variety of unique characteristics. among all of islam...

This article considers the problem of generating various calligraphy of Japanese character from some limited existing fonts. We propose a generation method based on the deformable contour model g-snake. By representing the outline of each stroke that makes of a character w i th a g-snake, we cast the generation problem into global and local deformation of g-snake under different control paramet...

In the architecture of Iranian traditional houses, the ornamentations available in the inscriptions of houses entrance portal express the identity of architects and personality of houses owners and are rooted in their religious and national beliefs and faiths. The main hypothesis of this research is changing the physique and application of religious contents in compliance with the thoughts and ...

This paper considers the problem of generating various calligraphy from some sample fonts. Our method is based on the deformable contour model g-snake. By representing the outline of each stroke of a character with a g-snake, we cast the generation problem into global and local deformation of g-snake under different control parameters, where the local deformation obeys the energy minimization p...

A robot testbed for writing Chinese and Japanese calligraphy characters is presented. Single strokes of the calligraphy characters are represented in a database and initialized with a scanned reference image and a manually chosen initial drawing spline. A learning procedure uses visual feedback to analyze each new iteration of the drawn stroke and updates the drawing spline such that every subs...