Presentation 2019-03-17
Generating Handwriting Character Clones by Estimation of Individual Writer's Standard Images and Their Deformation
Yuki Shono, Kazuaki Nakamura, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi,
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Abstract(in English) Shapes of handwritten characters are different depending on individual writers. At the same time, they are also slightly different even when the same writer writes the same characters. We refer to the former property and the latter property as {it individuality} and {it variety}. In this paper, we propose a method for automatically generating clone images of a target writer's handwritten charactersthat have his/her {it individuality} and the {it variety}, assuming that the target writer provides their actual handwriting images only for several seed characters. We call the clone images as {it handwritten character clones} or HCCs. The proposed method generates HCCs as follows:First, a single image that has the target writer's {it individuality} is generated for each character, which is called a standard image. For non-seed characters, we estimate their standard images by collaborative filtering. Then we deform the standard images by applying various displacement fields to them in order to realize the {it variety}. Our experimental results demonstrated that. the proposed method can generate HCCs which are similar with the target writer's actual handwriting but are slightly different from each other.
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Keyword(in English) handwritten character generation / individuality / variety / collavorative filtering / displacement field
Paper # BioX2018-30,PRMU2018-134
Date of Issue 2019-03-10 (BioX, PRMU)

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Committee PRMU / BioX
Conference Date 2019/3/17(2days)
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Chair Shinichi Sato(NII) / Kazuhiko Sumi(AGU)
Vice Chair Yoshihisa Ijiri(Omron) / Toru Tamaki(Hiroshima Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(NEC) / Tetsushi Ohki(Shizuoka Univ.)
Secretary Yoshihisa Ijiri(NEC) / Toru Tamaki(Osaka Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(Fujitsu Labs.) / Tetsushi Ohki(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
Assistant Go Irie(NTT) / Yoshitaka Ushiku(Univ. of Tokyo) / Norihiro Okui(KDDI Research) / Daishi Watabe(Saitama Inst. of Tech.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding / Technical Committee on Biometrics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Generating Handwriting Character Clones by Estimation of Individual Writer's Standard Images and Their Deformation
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) handwritten character generation
Keyword(2) individuality
Keyword(3) variety
Keyword(4) collavorative filtering
Keyword(5) displacement field
1st Author's Name Yuki Shono
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kazuaki Nakamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Naoko Nitta
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
4th Author's Name Noboru Babaguchi
4th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
Date 2019-03-17
Paper # BioX2018-30,PRMU2018-134
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) BioX-512,PRMU-513
Page pp.pp.7-12(BioX), pp.7-12(PRMU),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-03-10 (BioX, PRMU)