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Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) conditioned on text and style is a challenging task due to the variability of inter-user characteristics and the unlimited combinations of characters that form new words unseen during training. Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Marcus Liwicki

Current text recognition systems, including those for handwritten scripts and scene text, have relied heavily on image synthesis and augmentation, since it is difficult to realize real-world complexity and diversity through collecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuanzhi Zhu , Zhaohai Li , Tianwei Wang , Mengchao He , Cong Yao

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose a diffusion probabilistic model for handwriting generation. Diffusion models are a class of generative models where samples start from Gaussian noise and are gradually denoised to produce output. Our method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Troy Luhman , Eric Luhman

Handwritten Text Recognition has achieved an impressive performance in public benchmarks. However, due to the high inter- and intra-class variability between handwriting styles, such recognizers need to be trained using huge volumes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

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

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

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

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

Diffusion models have become a new generative paradigm for text generation. Considering the discrete categorical nature of text, in this paper, we propose GlyphDiffusion, a novel diffusion approach for text generation via text-guided image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

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

Text-to-Image synthesis is the task of generating an image according to a specific text description. Generative Adversarial Networks have been considered the standard method for image synthesis virtually since their introduction. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Vincent Christlein , Mathias Seuret , Giorgos Sfikas , Elisa Barney Smith , Hamam Mokayed , Marcus Liwicki

Diffusion-based Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) approaches achieve impressive results on frequent, in-vocabulary words observed at training time and on regular styles. However, they are prone to memorizing training samples and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara , Marcus Liwicki

Personalized text-to-image models allow users to generate varied styles of images (specified with a sentence) for an object (specified with a set of reference images). While remarkable results have been achieved using diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Fanyue Wei , Wei Zeng , Zhenyang Li , Dawei Yin , Lixin Duan , Wen Li

Although current image generation methods have reached impressive quality levels, they are still unable to produce plausible yet diverse images of handwritten words. On the contrary, when writing by hand, a great variability is observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Yaxing Wang , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is still a challenging problem because it must deal with two important difficulties: the variability among writing styles, and the scarcity of labelled data. To alleviate such problems, synthetic data…

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

Text-driven human motion generation is a multimodal task that synthesizes human motion sequences conditioned on natural language. It requires the model to satisfy textual descriptions under varying conditional inputs, while generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xingyu Chen

We propose a novel transformer-based styled handwritten text image generation approach, HWT, that strives to learn both style-content entanglement as well as global and local writing style patterns. The proposed HWT captures the long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah
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