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Tokenization is fundamental to pretrained language models (PLMs). Existing tokenization methods for Chinese PLMs typically treat each character as an indivisible token. However, they ignore the unique feature of the Chinese writing system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Chenglei Si , Zhengyan Zhang , Yingfa Chen , Fanchao Qi , Xiaozhi Wang , Zhiyuan Liu , Yasheng Wang , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

Handwritten fonts have a distinct expressive character, but they are often difficult to read due to unclear or inconsistent handwriting. FontFusionGAN (FFGAN) is a novel method for improving handwritten fonts by combining them with printed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Avinash Kumar , Kyeolhee Kang , Ammar ul Hassan , Jaeyoung Choi

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from unpredictable mode-collapsing during training. We study the issue of mode collapse of Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), which is one of the state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Chia-Che Chang , Chieh Hubert Lin , Che-Rung Lee , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Hwann-Tzong Chen

We introduce effective training algorithms for Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to alleviate mode collapse and gradient vanishing. In our system, we constrain the generator by an Autoencoder (AE). We propose a formulation to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Tuan-Anh Bui , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great capacity on image generation, in which a discriminative model guides the training of a generative model to construct images that resemble real images. Recently, GANs have been extended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Xinyue Liu , Xiangnan Kong , Lei Liu , Kuorong Chiang

In recent years, neural networks have proven to be effective in Chinese word segmentation. However, this promising performance relies on large-scale training data. Neural networks with conventional architectures cannot achieve the desired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun , Sujian Li , Xiaoyan Cai , Bingzhen Wei

Disentanglement learning is crucial for obtaining disentangled representations and controllable generation. Current disentanglement methods face several inherent limitations: difficulty with high-resolution images, primarily focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Weili Nie , Tero Karras , Animesh Garg , Shoubhik Debnath , Anjul Patney , Ankit B. Patel , Anima Anandkumar

StyleGAN family is one of the most popular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for unconditional generation. Despite its impressive performance, its high demand on storage and computation impedes their deployment on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Guodong Xu , Yuenan Hou , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Outline generation aims to reveal the internal structure of a document by identifying underlying chapter relationships and generating corresponding chapter summaries. Although existing deep learning methods and large models perform well on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yan Yan , Yuanchi Ma

This paper mainly discusses the generation of personalized fonts as the problem of image style transfer. The main purpose of this paper is to design a network framework that can extract and recombine the content and style of the characters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Fenxi Xiao , Jie Zhang , Bo Huang , Xia Wu

This paper addresses the automatic generation of a typographic font from a subset of characters. Specifically, we use a subset of a typographic font to extrapolate additional characters. Consequently, we obtain a complete font containing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Tomo Miyazaki , Tatsunori Tsuchiya , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi , Masakazu Iwamura , Seiichi Uchida , Koichi Kise

Chinese Character Recognition (CCR) is a fundamental technology for intelligent document processing. Unlike Latin characters, Chinese characters exhibit unique spatial structures and compositional rules, allowing for the use of fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinglian Zhu , Haiyang Yu , Qizao Wang , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Xue , Bin Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been a popular deep generative model for real-world applications. Despite many recent efforts on GANs that have been contributed, mode collapse and instability of GANs are still open problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Shiming Chen , Wenjie Wang , Beihao Xia , Xinge You , Zehong Cao , Weiping Ding

Optical character recognition (OCR) systems performance have improved significantly in the deep learning era. This is especially true for handwritten text recognition (HTR), where each author has a unique style, unlike printed text, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Sharon Fogel , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Sarel Cohen , Shai Mazor , Roee Litman

The advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has brought about completely novel ways of transforming and manipulating pixels in digital images. GAN based techniques such as Image-to-Image translations, DeepFakes, and other automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Arjuna Flenner , Jawadul H. Bappy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , B. S. Manjunath

With the increased accuracy of modern computer vision technology, many access control systems are equipped with face recognition functions for faster identification. In order to maintain high recognition accuracy, it is necessary to keep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Tsung-Han Kuo , Zhenge Jia , Tei-Wei Kuo , Jingtong Hu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are proficient at generating synthetic data but continue to suffer from mode collapse, where the generator produces a narrow range of outputs that fool the discriminator but fail to capture the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mahsa Valizadeh , Rui Tuo , James Caverlee

Given the advantage and recent success of English character-level and subword-unit models in several NLP tasks, we consider the equivalent modeling problem for Chinese. Chinese script is logographic and many Chinese logograms are composed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Falcon Z. Dai , Zheng Cai

Although Chinese calligraphy generation has achieved style transfer, generating calligraphy by specifying the calligrapher, font, and character style remains challenging. To address this, we propose a new Chinese calligraphy generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kaiyuan Liu , Jiahao Mei , Hengyu Zhang , Yihuai Zhang , Daoguo Dong , Liang He

Deep learning is actively being used in biometrics to develop efficient identification and verification systems. Handwritten signatures are a common subset of biometric data for authentication purposes. Generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Haadia Amjad , Kilian Goeller , Steffen Seitz , Carsten Knoll , Naseer Bajwa , Ronald Tetzlaff , Muhammad Imran Malik