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Textual image generation spans diverse fields like advertising, education, product packaging, social media, information visualization, and branding. Despite recent strides in language-guided image synthesis using diffusion models, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Shubham Paliwal , Arushi Jain , Monika Sharma , Vikram Jamwal , Lovekesh Vig

Current image generation models struggle to reliably produce well-formed visual text. In this paper, we investigate a key contributing factor: popular text-to-image models lack character-level input features, making it much harder to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Rosanne Liu , Dan Garrette , Chitwan Saharia , William Chan , Adam Roberts , Sharan Narang , Irina Blok , RJ Mical , Mohammad Norouzi , Noah Constant

Text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, aiming to produce realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with generating anatomically accurate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haozhuo Zhang , Bin Zhu , Yu Cao , Yanbin Hao

Nowadays, generative models are shaping various fields such as art, design, and human-computer interaction, yet accompanied by challenges related to copyright infringement and content management. In response, existing research seeks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Danding Wang , Chang Xu

Generating stylized responses is essential to build intelligent and engaging dialogue systems. However, this task is far from well-explored due to the difficulties of rendering a particular style in coherent responses, especially when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yinhe Zheng , Zikai Chen , Rongsheng Zhang , Shilei Huang , Xiaoxi Mao , Minlie Huang

This paper proposes a novel model of few-part-shot font generation, which designs an entire font based on a set of partial design elements, i.e., partial shapes. Unlike conventional few-shot font generation, which requires entire character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Masaki Akiba , Shumpei Takezaki , Daichi Haraguchi , Seiichi Uchida

Recent breakthroughs in the field of language-guided image generation have yielded impressive achievements, enabling the creation of high-quality and diverse images based on user instructions.Although the synthesis performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jian Ma , Mingjun Zhao , Chen Chen , Ruichen Wang , Di Niu , Haonan Lu , Xiaodong Lin

Recent advances in text-to-image generation models have unlocked vast potential for visual creativity. However, the users that use these models struggle with the generation of consistent characters, a crucial aspect for numerous real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Omri Avrahami , Amir Hertz , Yael Vinker , Moab Arar , Shlomi Fruchter , Ohad Fried , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

The advent of recurrent neural networks for handwriting recognition marked an important milestone reaching impressive recognition accuracies despite the great variability that we observe across different writing styles. Sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

In this paper we study the recognition of handwritten characters from data captured by a novel wearable electro-textile sensor panel. The data is collected sequentially, such that we record both the stroke order and the resulting bitmap. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Leevi Raivio , Han He , Johanna Virkki , Heikki Huttunen

This paper proposed a method to imitate handwriting style by style transfer. We proposed an neural network model based on conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) for handwriting style transfer. This paper improved the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Kai Yang , Xiaoman Liang , Huihuang Zhao

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (Styled HTG) is an important task in document analysis, aiming to generate text images with the handwriting of given reference images. In recent years, there has been significant progress in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Vittorio Pippi , Fabio Quattrini , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara

We demonstrate that a generative model for object shapes can achieve state of the art results on challenging scene text recognition tasks, and with orders of magnitude fewer training images than required for competing discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Xinghua Lou , Ken Kansky , Wolfgang Lehrach , CC Laan , Bhaskara Marthi , D. Scott Phoenix , Dileep George

Few-shot and zero-shot text classification aim to recognize samples from novel classes with limited labeled samples or no labeled samples at all. While prevailing methods have shown promising performance via transferring knowledge from seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Han Liu , Siyang Zhao , Xiaotong Zhang , Feng Zhang , Wei Wang , Fenglong Ma , Hongyang Chen , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang

We develop an approach for text-to-image generation that embraces additional retrieval images, driven by a combination of implicit visual guidance loss and generative objectives. Unlike most existing text-to-image generation methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , John Collomosse

Visual text recognition is undoubtedly one of the most extensively researched topics in computer vision. Great progress have been made to date, with the latest models starting to focus on the more practical "in-the-wild" setting. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yi-Zhe Song

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) remains a challenging problem to date, largely due to the varying writing styles that exist amongst us. Prior works however generally operate with the assumption that there is a limited number of styles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Shuvozit Ghose , Amandeep Kumar , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yi-Zhe Song

New methods for generating synthetic handwriting images for biometric applications have recently been developed. The temporal evolution of handwriting from childhood to adulthood is usually left unexplored in these works. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Cristina Carmona-Duarte , Miguel A. Ferrer , Antonio Parziale , Angelo Marcelli

Plain text has become a prevalent interface for text-to-image synthesis. However, its limited customization options hinder users from accurately describing desired outputs. For example, plain text makes it hard to specify continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Songwei Ge , Taesung Park , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jia-Bin Huang

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a well-established research area. In contrast, Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) is an emerging field with significant potential. This task is challenging due to the variation in individual handwriting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Md. Rakibul Islam , Md. Kamrozzaman Bhuiyan , Safwan Muntasir , Arifur Rahman Jawad , Most. Sharmin Sultana Samu