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Designing fonts for languages with a large number of characters, such as Japanese and Chinese, is an extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming task. In this study, we addressed the problem of automatically generating Japanese typographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Haruka Aoki , Koki Tsubota , Hikaru Ikuta , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Vector-Quantized (VQ-based) generative models usually consist of two basic components, i.e., VQ tokenizers and generative transformers. Prior research focuses on improving the reconstruction fidelity of VQ tokenizers but rarely examines how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Yuchao Gu , Xintao Wang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Mike Zheng Shou

Font generation is a difficult and time-consuming task, especially in those languages using ideograms that have complicated structures with a large number of characters, such as Chinese. To solve this problem, few-shot font generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Haibin He , Xinyuan Chen , Chaoyue Wang , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Yu Qiao

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

Recent advances in generative compression methods have demonstrated remarkable progress in enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed data, especially in scenarios with low bitrates. However, their efficacy and applicability to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Qi Mao , Tinghan Yang , Yinuo Zhang , Zijian Wang , Meng Wang , Shiqi Wang , Siwei Ma

Few-shot Font Generation aims to generate stylistically consistent glyphs from a few reference glyphs. However, capturing complex font styles from a few exemplars remains challenging, and the existing methods often struggle to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Rejoy Chakraborty , Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal

Vector font synthesis is a challenging and ongoing problem in the fields of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. The recently-proposed DeepVecFont achieved state-of-the-art performance by exploiting information of both the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuqing Wang , Yizhi Wang , Longhui Yu , Yuesheng Zhu , Zhouhui Lian

Manual font design is an intricate process that transforms a stylistic visual concept into a coherent glyph set. This challenge persists in automated Few-shot Font Generation (FFG), where models often struggle to preserve both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haonan Cai , Yuxuan Luo , Zhouhui Lian

Few-shot Chinese font generation aims to synthesize new characters in a target style using only a handful of reference images. Achieving accurate content rendering and faithful style transfer requires effective disentanglement between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jie Li , Suorong Yang , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

A few-shot font generation (FFG) method has to satisfy two objectives: the generated images should preserve the underlying global structure of the target character and present the diverse local reference style. Existing FFG methods aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Song Park , Sanghyuk Chun , Junbum Cha , Bado Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Automatic font generation remains a challenging research issue due to the large amounts of characters with complicated structures. Typically, only a few samples can serve as the style/content reference (termed few-shot learning), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yuxin Kong , Canjie Luo , Weihong Ma , Qiyuan Zhu , Shenggao Zhu , Nicholas Yuan , Lianwen Jin

Font synthesis has been a very active topic in recent years because manual font design requires domain expertise and is a labor-intensive and time-consuming job. While remarkably successful, existing methods for font synthesis have major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Ammar Ul Hassan Muhammad , Jaeyoung Choi

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

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

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

Automatic font generation based on deep learning has aroused a lot of interest in the last decade. However, only a few recently-reported approaches are capable of directly generating vector glyphs and their results are still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yizhi Wang , Zhouhui Lian

In this work, we focus on the challenge of taking partial observations of highly-stylized text and generalizing the observations to generate unobserved glyphs in the ornamented typeface. To generate a set of multi-content images following a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Samaneh Azadi , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir Kim , Zhaowen Wang , Eli Shechtman , Trevor Darrell

Vector quantization (VQ) is a key technique in high-resolution and high-fidelity image synthesis, which aims to learn a codebook to encode an image with a sequence of discrete codes and then generate an image in an auto-regression manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Guotao Liang , Baoquan Zhang , Yaowei Wang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Huaibin Wang , Chuyao Luo , Kola Ye , linfeng Luo

Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sicheng Yang , Xing Hu , Qiang Wu , Dawei Yang

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