Disentangling writer and character styles for handwriting generation

G Dai, Y Zhang, Q Wang, Q Du, Z Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Training machines to synthesize diverse handwritings is an intriguing task. Recently, RNN-
based methods have been proposed to generate stylized online Chinese characters …

HiGAN: handwriting imitation conditioned on arbitrary-length texts and disentangled styles

J Gan, W Wang - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Given limited handwriting scripts, humans can easily visualize (or imagine) what the
handwritten words/texts would look like with other arbitrary textual contents. Moreover, a …

Learning to write stylized chinese characters by reading a handful of examples

D Sun, T Ren, C Li, H Su, J Zhu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06424, 2017 - arxiv.org
Automatically writing stylized Chinese characters is an attractive yet challenging task due to
its wide applicabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel framework named Style-Aware …

Handwriting transformers

AK Bhunia, S Khan, H Cholakkal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a novel transformer-based styled handwritten text image generation approach,
HWT, that strives to learn both style-content entanglement as well as global and local style …

HiGAN+: handwriting imitation GAN with disentangled representations

J Gan, W Wang, J Leng, X Gao - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022 - dl.acm.org
Humans remain far better than machines at learning, where humans require fewer examples
to learn new concepts and can use those concepts in richer ways. Take handwriting as an …

Distilling content from style for handwritten word recognition

L Kang, P Riba, M Rusinol, A Fornés… - … on Frontiers in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the latest transcription accuracies reached using deep neural network architectures,
handwritten text recognition still remains a challenging problem, mainly because of the large …

Handwritten text generation from visual archetypes

V Pippi, S Cascianelli… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Generating synthetic images of handwritten text in a writer-specific style is a challenging
task, especially in the case of unseen styles and new words, and even more when these …

Generating handwriting via decoupled style descriptors

A Kotani, S Tellex, J Tompkin - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2020 - Springer
Representing a space of handwriting stroke styles includes the challenge of representing
both the style of each character and the overall style of the human writer. Existing VRNN …

Text and style conditioned GAN for generation of offline handwriting lines

B Davis, C Tensmeyer, B Price, C Wigington… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a GAN for generating images of handwritten lines conditioned on
arbitrary text and latent style vectors. Unlike prior work, which produce stroke points or single …

Deep imitator: Handwriting calligraphy imitation via deep attention networks

B Zhao, J Tao, M Yang, Z Tian, C Fan, Y Bai - Pattern Recognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Calligraphy imitation (CI) from a handful of target handwriting samples is such a challenging
task that most of the existing writing style analysis or handwriting generation methods do not …