Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow

Re:Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector... by niccaluim on Monday December 28, 2015 @08:21PM (#10804568)

I wonder what RNN-generated fake Latin characters would look like. Sort of a handwriting version of that "what does English sounds like to non-English-speaking people" video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY)

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Re:Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector... by hardmaru on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:05PM (#10804734)

I reproduced an English handwriting generation experiment in the previou post.

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/12/handwriting-generation-demo...

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Re:Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @04:49AM (#10805966)

My first thought was that, to me, Cyrillic looks how I'd expect fake Latin characters to look. Clearly related, made of the same elements, but I don't recognize most of the characters...

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Re:Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector... by JulianMorrison on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:16PM (#10804767)

Mostly like real ones, I expect. We don't have root components to our characters except long and short line, circle, hook, arc, angle, so there aren't many missed opportunities for a longer alphabet. You'd need to run fakeness at the level of words, after teaching it about etymological roots.

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