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State-of-the-art offline handwriting text recognition systems tend to use neural networks and therefore require a large amount of annotated data to be trained. In order to partially satisfy this requirement, we propose a system based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Eloi Alonso , Bastien Moysset , Ronaldo Messina

In this work, we explore massive pre-training on synthetic word images for enhancing the performance on four benchmark downstream handwriting analysis tasks. To this end, we build a large synthetic dataset of word images rendered in several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) has recently received attention from the computer vision and document analysis communities, which have developed several solutions, either GAN- or diffusion-based, that achieved promising results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Vittorio Pippi , Fabio Quattrini , Silvia Cascianelli , Alessio Tonioni , Rita Cucchiara

Handwritten text recognition in low resource scenarios, such as manuscripts with rare alphabets, is a challenging problem. The main difficulty comes from the very few annotated data and the limited linguistic information (e.g. dictionaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Beáta Megyesi

Automatic character generation is an appealing solution for new typeface design, especially for Chinese typefaces including over 3700 most commonly-used characters. This task has two main pain points: (i) handwritten characters are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chuan Wen , Jie Chang , Ya Zhang , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang , Mei Han , Qi Tian

Automatic few-shot font generation aims to solve a well-defined, real-world problem because manual font designs are expensive and sensitive to the expertise of designers. Existing methods learn to disentangle style and content elements by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Song Park , Sanghyuk Chun , Junbum Cha , Bado Lee , Hyunjung Shim

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven hugely successful in variety of applications of image processing. However, generative adversarial networks for handwriting is relatively rare somehow because of difficulty of handling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Bo Ji , Tianyi Chen

Few-shot image generation and few-shot image translation are two related tasks, both of which aim to generate new images for an unseen category with only a few images. In this work, we make the first attempt to adapt few-shot image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yan Hong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

The digitization of historical manuscripts presents significant challenges for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems, particularly when dealing with small, author-specific collections that diverge from the training data distributions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vittorio Pippi , Konstantina Nikolaidou , Silvia Cascianelli , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Rita Cucchiara , Marcus Liwicki

Previous text-to-image synthesis algorithms typically use explicit textual instructions to generate/manipulate images accurately, but they have difficulty adapting to guidance in the form of coarsely matched texts. In this work, we attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengyao Cui , Zhe Zhu , Shao-Ping Lu , Yulu Yang

Text-to-image generative models can generate high-quality humans, but realism is lost when generating hands. Common artifacts include irregular hand poses, shapes, incorrect numbers of fingers, and physically implausible finger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Supreeth Narasimhaswamy , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Xiang Chen , Ishita Dasgupta , Saayan Mitra , Minh Hoai

Training machines to synthesize diverse handwritings is an intriguing task. Recently, RNN-based methods have been proposed to generate stylized online Chinese characters. However, these methods mainly focus on capturing a person's overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Gang Dai , Yifan Zhang , Qingfeng Wang , Qing Du , Zhuliang Yu , Zhuoman Liu , Shuangping Huang

Generating faithful and readable styled text images (especially for Styled Handwritten Text generation - HTG) is an open problem with several possible applications across graphic design, document understanding, and image editing. A lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Carmine Zaccagnino , Fabio Quattrini , Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Alessio Tonioni , Rita Cucchiara

Automatic artistic text generation is an emerging topic which receives increasing attention due to its wide applications. The artistic text can be divided into three components, content, font, and texture, respectively. Existing artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Qirui Huang , Bin Fu , Aozhong Zhang , Yu Qiao

Existing handwritten text generation methods often require more than ten handwriting samples as style references. However, in practical applications, users tend to prefer a handwriting generation model that operates with just a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Gang Dai , Yifan Zhang , Quhui Ke , Qiangya Guo , Shuangping Huang

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) has received significant attention in recent years, propelled by the success of learning-based solutions employing GANs, Transformers, and, preliminarily, Diffusion Models. Despite this surge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Bram Vanherle , Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Nick Michiels , Frank Van Reeth , Rita Cucchiara

Low resource Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a hard problem due to the scarce annotated data and the very limited linguistic information (dictionaries and language models). For example, in the case of historical ciphered manuscripts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Ali Furkan Biten , Sounak Dey , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Josep Lladós

Digital ink promises to combine the flexibility and aesthetics of handwriting and the ability to process, search and edit digital text. Character recognition converts handwritten text into a digital representation, albeit at the cost of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Emre Aksan , Fabrizio Pece , Otmar Hilliges

Existing handwritten text generation methods primarily focus on isolated words. However, realistic handwritten text demands attention not only to individual words but also to the relationships between them, such as vertical alignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Gang Dai , Yifan Zhang , Yutao Qin , Qiangya Guo , Shuangping Huang , Shuicheng Yan