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This paper presents a novel approach to Chinese characters through the lens of physics, network analysis, and natural systems. Computational analysis of over 6,000 characters identified 422 elemental characters as fundamental building…

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Generating a new font library is a very labor-intensive and time-consuming job for glyph-rich scripts. Despite the remarkable success of existing font generation methods, they have significant drawbacks; they require a large number of…

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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

Font design poses unique challenges for logographic languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK), where thousands of unique characters must be individually crafted. This paper introduces a novel Vision Transformer (ViT)-based model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiheng Wang , Jiarui Liu

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

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

Multi-stroke characters in scripts such as Chinese and Japanese can be highly complex, posing significant challenges for both native speakers and, especially, non-native learners. If these characters can be simplified without degrading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ryo Ishiyama , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Seiichi Uchida

In recent years, after the neural-network-based method was proposed, the accuracy of the Chinese word segmentation task has made great progress. However, when dealing with out-of-vocabulary words, there is still a large error rate. We used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Yung-Sung Chuang

Previous work has modeled the compositionality of words by creating character-level models of meaning, reducing problems of sparsity for rare words. However, in many writing systems compositionality has an effect even on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Frederick Liu , Han Lu , Chieh Lo , Graham Neubig

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

Automatic few-shot font generation (AFFG), aiming at generating new fonts with only a few glyph references, reduces the labor cost of manually designing fonts. However, the traditional AFFG paradigm of style-content disentanglement cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Wei Pan , Anna Zhu , Xinyu Zhou , Brian Kenji Iwana , Shilin Li

Chinese character recognition has attracted much research interest due to its wide applications. Although it has been studied for many years, some issues in this field have not been completely resolved yet, e.g. the zero-shot problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jingye Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Scene text recognition plays an important role in many computer vision applications. The small size of available public available scene text datasets is the main challenge when training a text recognition CNN model. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Xiaohang Ren , Kai Chen , Jun Sun

In this paper, we propose new methods to learn Chinese word representations. Chinese characters are composed of graphical components, which carry rich semantics. It is common for a Chinese learner to comprehend the meaning of a word from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Tzu-Ray Su , Hung-Yi Lee

Intent classification has been widely researched on English data with deep learning approaches that are based on neural networks and word embeddings. The challenge for Chinese intent classification stems from the fact that, unlike English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ruixi Lin , Charles Costello , Charles Jankowski

Stroke extraction of Chinese characters plays an important role in the field of character recognition and generation. The most existing character stroke extraction methods focus on image morphological features. These methods usually lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Meng Li , Yahan Yu , Yi Yang , Guanghao Ren , Jian Wang

The flourishing blossom of deep learning has witnessed the rapid development of Chinese character recognition. However, it remains a great challenge that the characters for testing may have different distributions from those of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Haiyang Yu , Jingye Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Automatic generation of fonts can be an important aid to typeface design. Many current approaches regard glyphs as pixelated images, which present artifacts when scaling and inevitable quality losses after vectorization. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ying-Tian Liu , Zhifei Zhang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Matthew Fisher , Zhaowen Wang , Song-Hai Zhang

Text plays a crucial role in the transmission of human civilization, and teaching machines to generate online handwritten text in various styles presents an interesting and significant challenge. However, most prior work has concentrated on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Min-Si Ren , Yan-Ming Zhang , Yi Chen

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are essential XML-based formats for versatile graphics, offering resolution independence and scalability. Unlike raster images, SVGs use geometric shapes and support interactivity, animation, and manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zehao Chen , Rong Pan