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Chinese vector font generation is challenging due to the complex structure and huge amount of Chinese characters. Recent advances remain limited to generating a small set of characters with simple structure. In this work, we first observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jinyu Song , Weitao You , Shuhui Shi , Shuxuan Guo , Lingyun Sun , Wei Wang

Vectorized glyphs are widely used in poster design, network animation, art display, and various other fields due to their scalability and flexibility. In typography, they are often seen as special sequences composed of ordered strokes. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xinyue Zhang , Haolong Li , Jiawei Ma , Chen Ye

In this paper, we investigate the Chinese font synthesis problem and propose a Pyramid Embedded Generative Adversarial Network (PEGAN) to automatically generate Chinese character images. The PEGAN consists of one generator and one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Donghui Sun , Qing Zhang , Jun Yang

Faithful text image super-resolution (SR) is challenging because each character has a unique structure and usually exhibits diverse font styles and layouts. While existing methods primarily focus on English text, less attention has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaoming Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Chen Change Loy

In this paper, we propose GlyphGAN: style-consistent font generation based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs are a framework for learning a generative model using a system of two neural networks competing with each other. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hideaki Hayashi , Kohtaro Abe , Seiichi Uchida

Blind text image super-resolution (SR) is challenging as one needs to cope with diverse font styles and unknown degradation. To address the problem, existing methods perform character recognition in parallel to regularize the SR task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaoming Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Chen Change Loy

Chinese characters carry a wealth of morphological and semantic information; therefore, the semantic enhancement of the morphology of Chinese characters has drawn significant attention. The previous methods were intended to directly extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Zongze Chen , Wenxia Yang , Xin Li

Automatic font generation (AFG) is the process of creating a new font using only a few examples of the style images. Generating fonts for complex languages like Korean and Chinese, particularly in handwritten styles, presents significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Abdul Sami , Avinash Kumar , Irfanullah Memon , Youngwon Jo , Muhammad Rizwan , Jaeyoung Choi

Stroke is the basic element of Chinese character and stroke extraction has been an important and long-standing endeavor. Existing stroke extraction methods are often handcrafted and highly depend on domain expertise due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Lizhao Liu , Kunyang Lin , Shangxin Huang , Zhongli Li , Chao Li , Yunbo Cao , Qingyu Zhou

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

Recent proposals for quantum generative adversarial networks (GANs) suffer from the issue of mode collapse, analogous to classical GANs, wherein the distribution learnt by the GAN fails to capture the high mode complexities of the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Aaron Mark Thomas , Harry Youel , Sharu Theresa Jose

Recently, significant advancements have been made in diffusion-based visual text generation models. Although the effectiveness of these methods in visual text rendering is rapidly improving, they still encounter challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Lichen Ma , Tiezhu Yue , Pei Fu , Yujie Zhong , Kai Zhou , Xiaoming Wei , Jie Hu

StyleGANs have shown impressive results on data generation and manipulation in recent years, thanks to its disentangled style latent space. A lot of efforts have been made in inverting a pretrained generator, where an encoder is trained ad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ligong Han , Sri Harsha Musunuri , Martin Renqiang Min , Ruijiang Gao , Yu Tian , Dimitris Metaxas

Current Chinese calligraphy generation methods suffer from poor stroke rendering and unrealistic ink morphology, resulting in outputs with limited visual fidelity and artistic fluidity. To address this problem, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kunchong Shi , Jing Zhang

Intent classification has been widely researched on English data with deep learning approaches that are based on neural networks and word embeddings. The challenge for Chinese intent classification stems from the fact that, unlike English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ruixi Lin , Charles Costello , Charles Jankowski

Previous works on font generation mainly focus on the standard print fonts where character's shape is stable and strokes are clearly separated. There is rare research on brush handwriting font generation, which involves holistic structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shaozu Yuan , Ruixue Liu , Meng Chen , Baoyang Chen , Zhijie Qiu , Xiaodong He

Recent deep learning based approaches have achieved great success on handwriting recognition. Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world. Previous research has mainly focused on recognizing handwritten…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Xu-Yao Zhang , Fei Yin , Yan-Ming Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu , Yoshua Bengio

In this work, we propose a novel framework named Coconditional Autoencoding Adversarial Networks (CocoAAN) for Chinese font learning, which jointly learns a generation network and two encoding networks of different feature domains using an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Zhizhan Zheng , Feiyun Zhang

The challenge of automatically synthesizing high-quality vector fonts, particularly for writing systems (e.g., Chinese) consisting of huge amounts of complex glyphs, remains unsolved. Existing font synthesis techniques fall into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hua Li , Zhouhui Lian

Recent studies have consistently given positive hints that morphology is helpful in enriching word embeddings. In this paper, we argue that Chinese word embeddings can be substantially enriched by the morphological information hidden in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hanqing Tao , Shiwei Tong , Tong Xu , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen