Korean Font Synthesis with GANs

Ko, Debbie Honghee; Hassan, Ammar Ul; Suk, Jungjae; Choi, Jaeyoung

doi:10.7763/ijcte.2020.v12.1270

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“…The style conversion of Chinese fonts remains a challenging task because of the large number of characters (70,224 characters, GB18010-2005) and complex shapes (some characters have more than 50 strokes) compared to Roman characters. Several models based on GAN [6,7] have recently been proposed and have demonstrated success in font synthesis tasks [8][9][10][11][12][22][23][24][25][26]. We divided these methods into two categories, many-shot and few-shot font generation methods, which are discussed in the next section.…”

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CCFont: Component-Based Chinese Font Generation Model Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

2022

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Font generation using deep learning has made considerable progress using image style transfer, but the automatic conversion/generation of Chinese characters still remains a difficult task owing to the complex character shape and large number of Chinese characters. Most known Chinese character generation models use the image conversion method of the Chinese character shape itself; however, it is difficult to reproduce complex Chinese characters. Recent methods have utilized character compositionality by separating up to three or four components to improve the quality of generated characters, but it is still difficult to generate high-quality results for complex Chinese characters with many components. In this study, we proposed the CCFont model (component-based Chinese font generation model using generative adversarial networks (GANs)) that automatically generates all Chinese characters using Chinese character components (up to 17 components). The CCFont model generates all Chinese characters in various styles using the components of Chinese characters based on conditional GAN. By acquiring local style information from the components, the information is more accurate and there is less information loss than when global information is obtained from the image of the entire character, reducing the failure of style conversion and improving quality to produce high-quality results. Additionally, the CCFont model generates high-quality results without any additional training (zero-shot font generation without any additional training) for the first-seen characters and styles. For example, the CCFont model, which was trained with only traditional Chinese (TC) characters, generates high-quality results for languages that can be divided into components, such as Korean and Thai, as well as simplified Chinese (SC) characters that are only seen during inference. CCFont can be adopted as a multi-lingual font-generation model that can be applied to all languages, which can be divided into components. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed method is the first to generate a zero-shot multilingual generation model using components. Qualitative and quantitative experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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