Presentation 2020-03-05
[Poster Presentation] Personalized font system
Yuto Yamamoto, Michiharu Niimi,
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Abstract(in English) For modern computer society, one may need human touch character font system to enjoy making communication through Internet. An approach to build such font system is to modify the usual font installed in one's computer devices. In this paper, we consider a font system that reproduces personal handwritten characters by transforming the usual fonts, and describe how to modify them into beautiful characters without losing the feeling of handwriting. Two methods are proposed: one is a method using deep neural networks based on GAN called by zi2zi and another is a method for extracting displacement information using energy functional minimization. As an example of beautiful characters, we adopted the shape of HG textbook font which is a square typeface, and realized beautiful characters by moving handwritten characters to the font shape. For zi2zi, it was confirmed that the intended handwritten characters can be output for the input rasterized font by devising the input data and learning conditions. In the displacement information extraction method, characters that could be correctly analyzed were possible to approximate handwritten characters to rasterized fonts in a natural way. However, the entire sentence that was the subject of the experiment collapsed unnaturally, and was not judged to be more beautiful than the original sentence by respondents.
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Keyword(in English) GAN / Hand Written Character Font / Machine Learning / Energy Functional / Font Generation / Beautiful Character
Paper # EMM2019-115
Date of Issue 2020-02-27 (EMM)

Conference Information
Committee EMM
Conference Date 2020/3/5(2days)
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Topics (in English) Image and Sound Quality, Metrics for Perception and Recognition, Human Auditory and Visual System, etc.
Chair Masaki Kawamura(Yamaguchi Univ.)
Vice Chair Motoi Iwata(Osaka Prefecture Univ.) / Tetsuya Kojima(NIT,Tokyo College)
Secretary Motoi Iwata(NIT, Nagano College) / Tetsuya Kojima(Nagase)
Assistant Masaki Inamura(Tokyo Denki Univ.) / Kazuhiro Kono(Kansai Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Enriched MultiMedia
Language JPN
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Title (in English) [Poster Presentation] Personalized font system
Sub Title (in English) beautiful character generation with hand writing style
Keyword(1) GAN
Keyword(2) Hand Written Character Font
Keyword(3) Machine Learning
Keyword(4) Energy Functional
Keyword(5) Font Generation
Keyword(6) Beautiful Character
1st Author's Name Yuto Yamamoto
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
2nd Author's Name Michiharu Niimi
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
Date 2020-03-05
Paper # EMM2019-115
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) EMM-463
Page pp.pp.69-74(EMM),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-02-27 (EMM)