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Re:Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Advers... by joshvm on Friday April 07, 2017 @05:26PM (#14063634)
Could this be used to generate simple missing characters in Western fonts too? For example many nice fonts are missing Greek letters (useful for science), punctuation or diacritics.
Re:Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Advers... by kaonashi-tyc-01 on Friday April 07, 2017 @05:35PM (#14063684)
Should have no problem since this model works end-2-end, so only images are required. However, one worry is that the number of glphys for western language is significant smaller than eastern Asian languages, the styles to model might be a lot more than the demonstrated case here which will lead to an explosive size of discriminator, so some structure change might need to take place before applying to western alphabet
Re:Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Advers... by kem on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:13PM (#14065090)
Funny, I had the exact same question, and spent the last hour or so looking into it before I saw your question.

In something I've been writing lately, I've wanted to be able to use certain typefaces, but they lack mathematical symbols or characters. It's something I run into repeatedly. Earlier today, before I saw this post, I was thinking maybe I should just add them, because they're open source, but then when I saw this I wondered "could you just do this with an autoencoder or AN or whatever?" It seems very doable. There are typefaces with them; the issue is creating the missing characters for the typefaces that don't have them, but have other characters.