Generating synthetic handwritten historical documents with OCR constrained GANs

L Vögtlin, M Drazyk, V Pondenkandath… - Document Analysis and …, 2021 - Springer
We present a framework to generate synthetic historical documents with precise ground truth
using nothing more than a collection of unlabeled historical images. Obtaining large labeled …

Generation of a synthetic handwritten Bangla compound character dataset using a modified conditional GAN architecture

A Das, A Choudhuri, A Basu, R Sarkar - Multimedia Tools and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for handwritten texts is
a challenging research problem. Handwritten text can be largely different even for the same …

Handwritten text generation with character-specific encoding for style imitation

J Zdenek, H Nakayama - International Conference on Document Analysis …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a novel method for handwritten text generation that uses a style
encoder based on a vision transformer network that encodes handwriting style from …

Improving handwritten OCR with training samples generated by glyph conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model

H Ding, B Luan, D Gui, K Chen, Q Huo - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Constructing a highly accurate handwritten OCR system requires large amounts of
representative training data, which is both time-consuming and expensive to collect. To …

TBM-GAN: Synthetic document generation with degraded background

A Poddar, S Dey, P Jawanpuria… - … on Document Analysis …, 2023 - Springer
Deep document enhancement models often suffer in real world applications due to limited
annotation and bias in training data. Moreover, generative models are often prone to …

Automatic Transcription of Handwritten Old Occitan Language

EG Arias, V Pai, M Schöffel, C Heumann… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
While existing neural network-based approaches have shown promising results in
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for high-resource languages and …

Generating synthetic styled Chu nom characters

J Diesbach, A Fischer, M Bui… - … Conference on Frontiers in …, 2022 - Springer
Images of historical Vietnamese steles allow historians to discover invaluable information
regarding the past of the country, especially about the life of people in rural villages. Due to …

APRNet: Attention-based Pixel-wise Rendering Network for Photo-Realistic Text Image Generation

Y Shi, H Ding, K Chen, Q Huo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07705, 2022 - arxiv.org
Style-guided text image generation tries to synthesize text image by imitating reference
image's appearance while keeping text content unaltered. The text image appearance …

A New Approach to Synthetic Image Evaluation

M Memari - 2023 - opensiuc.lib.siu.edu
This study is dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) systems, with a special emphasis on Arabic handwritten digit recognition. The choice …

Synthetic Data Generation for Semantic Segmentation of Lecture Videos

K Davila, F Xu, J Molina, S Setlur… - … Conference on Frontiers …, 2022 - Springer
Lecture videos have become a great resource for students and teachers. These videos are a
vast information source, but most search engines only index them by their audio. To make …