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Chinese character style transfer is a very challenging problem because of the complexity of the glyph shapes or underlying structures and large numbers of existed characters, when comparing with English letters. Moreover, the handwriting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qi Wen , Shuang Li , Bingfeng Han , Yi Yuan

Handwriting stroke generation is crucial for improving the performance of tasks such as handwriting recognition and writers order recovery. In handwriting stroke generation, it is significantly important to imitate the sample calligraphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sidra Hanif , Longin Jan Latecki

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

Fonts are integral to creative endeavors, design processes, and artistic productions. The appropriate selection of a font can significantly enhance artwork and endow advertisements with a higher level of expressivity. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lei Kang , Fei Yang , Kai Wang , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Lluis Gomez , Alicia Fornés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

In this paper, we propose a new network architecture for Chinese typography transformation based on deep learning. The architecture consists of two sub-networks: (1)a fully convolutional network(FCN) aiming at transferring specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Jie Chang , Yujun Gu

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

Automatic generation of high-quality Chinese fonts from a few online training samples is a challenging task, especially when the amount of samples is very small. Existing few-shot font generation methods can only synthesize low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yitian Liu , Zhouhui Lian

We introduce Calligrapher, a novel diffusion-based framework that innovatively integrates advanced text customization with artistic typography for digital calligraphy and design applications. Addressing the challenges of precise style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yue Ma , Qingyan Bai , Hao Ouyang , Ka Leong Cheng , Qiuyu Wang , Hongyu Liu , Zichen Liu , Haofan Wang , Jingye Chen , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen

We provide an overview of the diffusion model as a method to generate new samples. Generative models have been recently adopted for tasks such as art generation (Stable Diffusion, Dall-E) and text generation (ChatGPT). Diffusion models in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Justin Le

The imitation of cursive handwriting is mainly limited to generating handwritten words or lines. Multiple synthetic outputs must be stitched together to create paragraphs or whole pages, whereby consistency and layout information are lost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Martin Mayr , Marcel Dreier , Florian Kordon , Mathias Seuret , Jochen Zöllner , Fei Wu , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

Text-to-image synthesis for the Chinese language poses unique challenges due to its large vocabulary size, and intricate character relationships. While existing diffusion models have shown promise in generating images from textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chengyu Wang , Zhongjie Duan , Bingyan Liu , Xinyi Zou , Cen Chen , Kui Jia , Jun Huang

Constructing a highly accurate handwritten OCR system requires large amounts of representative training data, which is both time-consuming and expensive to collect. To mitigate the issue, we propose a denoising diffusion probabilistic model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Haisong Ding , Bozhi Luan , Dongnan Gui , Kai Chen , Qiang Huo

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

Chinese character synthesis involves two related aspects, i.e., style maintenance and content consistency. Although some methods have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing a character with specified style from standard font, how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xiyan Liu , Gaofeng Meng , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Text-to-story visualization is challenging due to the need for consistent interaction among multiple characters across frames. Existing methods struggle with character consistency, leading to artifact generation and inaccurate dialogue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ayan Banerjee , Josep Llados , Umapada Pal , Anjan Dutta

In this paper, we investigate the Chinese calligraphy synthesis problem: synthesizing Chinese calligraphy images with specified style from standard font(eg. Hei font) images (Fig. 1(a)). Recent works mostly follow the stroke extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pengyuan Lyu , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao , Zhen Zhu , Tengteng Huang , Wenyu Liu

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

Have you ever thought that you can be an intelligent painter? This means that you can paint a picture with a few expected objects in mind, or with a desirable scene. This is different from normal inpainting approaches for which the location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Wing-Fung Ku , Wan-Chi Siu , Xi Cheng , H. Anthony Chan

In this paper, we present DesignDiffusion, a simple yet effective framework for the novel task of synthesizing design images from textual descriptions. A primary challenge lies in generating accurate and style-consistent textual and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Ambigrams are graphical letter designs that can be read not only from the original direction but also from a rotated direction (especially with 180 degrees). Designing ambigrams is difficult even for human experts because keeping their dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Takahiro Shirakawa , Seiichi Uchida