Generativní neuronové sítě pro ručně psané písmo

The aim of this study was to create a generative neural network for handwritten text lines. The model produces variable-sized images of handwritten text lines based on the expected style. The proposed method exceeds existing models in the image quality and can be used to generate both individual words and entire lines of handwritten text. It combines the use of the attention mechanism to extract the features for each character from the text query and their arranging on the line by inserting spaces between them. The new approach allows more granular control of the symbol positions on the line, which leads to smoother style interpolations. In contrast to the previous approach, the proposed method uses the Gaussian filter to spread the individual symbols features to the surrounding area. This approach also allows to train the model for symbols position predictions using the adversarial loss (GAN). In addition, annotations of symbol horizontal positions on the lines of the IAM dataset of handwritten text have been created.

Generating training data, handwritten text, generative neural networks, GAN, AdaIN, Transformer