CalliGAN: Style and Structure-aware Chinese Calligraphy Character Generator
- Resource Type
- Working Paper
- Authors
- Wu, Shan-Jean; Yang, Chih-Yuan; Hsu, Jane Yung-jen
- Source
- Subject
- Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Language
Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form performed with brushes so Chinese characters are rich of shapes and details. Recent studies show that Chinese characters can be generated through image-to-image translation for multiple styles using a single model. We propose a novel method of this approach by incorporating Chinese characters' component information into its model. We also propose an improved network to convert characters to their embedding space. Experiments show that the proposed method generates high-quality Chinese calligraphy characters over state-of-the-art methods measured through numerical evaluations and human subject studies.
Comment: the work has been accepted to the AI for content creation workshop at CVPR 2020