MaLiang: An Emotion-driven Chinese Calligraphy Artwork Composition System

We present a novel Chinese calligraphy artwork composition system (MaLiang) which can generate aesthetic, stylistic and diverse calligraphy images based on the emotion status from the input text. Different from previous research, it's the first work to endow the calligraphy synthesis with the ability to express fickle emotions and composite a whole piece of discourse-level calligraphy artwork instead of single character images. The system consists of three modules: emotion detection, character image generation, and layout prediction. As a creative form of interactive art, MaLiang has been exhibited in several famous international art festivals.