Probabilistic Synthesis of Personal-Style Handwriting

Hyunil CHOI  Jin Hyung KIM 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.4  pp.653-661
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Pattern Recognition
Keyword: 
handwriting synthesis,  hierarchical character representation,  probabilistic context modeling, 

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Summary: 
The goal of personal-style handwriting synthesis is to produce texts in the same style as an individual writer by analyzing the writer's samples of handwriting. The difficulty of handwriting synthesis is that the output should have the characteristics of the person's handwriting as well as looking natural, based on a limited number of available examples. We develop a synthesis algorithm which produces handwriting that exhibits naturalness based on the probabilistic character model.