Handwriting Matching and Its Application to Handwriting Synthesis

  • Authors:
  • Yefeng Zheng;David Doermann

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Since it is extremely expensive to collect a large volume of handwriting samples, synthesized data are often used to enlarge the training set. We argue that, in order to generate good handwriting samples, a synthesis algorithm should learn the shape deformation characteristics of handwriting from real samples. In this paper, we present a point matching algorithm to learn the deformation, and apply it to handwriting synthesis. Preliminary experiments show the advantages of our approach.