ScrabbleGAN: Semi-Supervised Varying Length Handwritten Text Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10557v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:41:19 GMT
• Title: ScrabbleGAN: Semi-Supervised Varying Length Handwritten Text Generation
• Authors: Sharon Fogel (1), Hadar Averbuch-Elor (2), Sarel Cohen, Shai Mazor (1) and Roee Litman (1) ((1) Amazon Rekognition Israel, (2) Cornell University)
• Abstract summary: We present ScrabbleGAN, a semi-supervised approach to synthesize handwritten text images. ScrabbleGAN relies on a novel generative model which can generate images of words with an arbitrary length.
• Score: 0.9542023122304099
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Optical character recognition (OCR) systems performance have improved significantly in the deep learning era. This is especially true for handwritten text recognition (HTR), where each author has a unique style, unlike printed text, where the variation is smaller by design. That said, deep learning based HTR is limited, as in every other task, by the number of training examples. Gathering data is a challenging and costly task, and even more so, the labeling task that follows, of which we focus here. One possible approach to reduce the burden of data annotation is semi-supervised learning. Semi supervised methods use, in addition to labeled data, some unlabeled samples to improve performance, compared to fully supervised ones. Consequently, such methods may adapt to unseen images during test time. We present ScrabbleGAN, a semi-supervised approach to synthesize handwritten text images that are versatile both in style and lexicon. ScrabbleGAN relies on a novel generative model which can generate images of words with an arbitrary length. We show how to operate our approach in a semi-supervised manner, enjoying the aforementioned benefits such as performance boost over state of the art supervised HTR. Furthermore, our generator can manipulate the resulting text style. This allows us to change, for instance, whether the text is cursive, or how thin is the pen stroke.

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