Presentation 2018-03-19
Generating Handwritten Character Clones Based on Shape Model Estimation by Collaborating Filtering
Eiji Miyazaki, Kazuaki Nakamura, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we focus on methods for generating clone images of handwritten characters resembling a target writer's actual handwriting, which we call handwritten character clones or HCC. In HCC generation, not a single HCC but its distribution should be created for each character because humans' actual handwritings differ from each other even if the same writer writes the same character. To this end, a lot of actual handwriting images of the target writer are generally required for each character. However, it is difficult to collect such an image set. Hence, we only assume an incomplete seed character set, which consists of at most one or no example of the target writer's actual handwritings per character, and propose a HCC generation method that can generate different images of the same character based on the incomplete seed character set. In the proposed method, we achieve this task using collaborative filtering. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, especially in the case of using user-based collaborative filtering.
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Keyword(in English) handwritten character generation / incomplete seed character set / collaborative filtering
Paper # BioX2017-73,PRMU2017-209
Date of Issue 2018-03-11 (BioX, PRMU)

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Committee PRMU / BioX
Conference Date 2018/3/18(2days)
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Chair Shinichi Sato(NII) / Kazuhiko Sumi(AGU)
Vice Chair Hironobu Fujiyoshi(Chubu Univ.) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(Omron) / Hiroshi Takano(Toyama Pref. Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(NEC)
Secretary Hironobu Fujiyoshi(AIST) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(NAIST) / Hiroshi Takano(Shizuoka Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(Fujitsu Labs.)
Assistant Masato Ishii(NEC) / Yusuke Sugano(Osaka Univ.) / Masatsugu Ichino(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Naoyuki Takada(Secom) / Norihiro Okui(KDDI Research)

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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 Handwritten Character Clones Based on Shape Model Estimation by Collaborating Filtering
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Keyword(1) handwritten character generation
Keyword(2) incomplete seed character set
Keyword(3) collaborative filtering
1st Author's Name Eiji Miyazaki
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 2018-03-19
Paper # BioX2017-73,PRMU2017-209
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) BioX-513,PRMU-514
Page pp.pp.219-224(BioX), pp.219-224(PRMU),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-03-11 (BioX, PRMU)