Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, Limited

Sergio Rodolfo Cruz Gomez

Wai Kai Arvin Tang

The present invention provides an apparatus for producing labelled cursive handwritten text samples with context style variability, and method of training and using the same. The apparatus comprises: a word embedding units configured for encoding an input text to obtain an input text word embedding; a word embedding unit configured for encoding a handwriting context style description into a context style description embedding; a transformer configured for transforming the context style description embedding to obtain a handwriting context style feature embedding; a feature embedding combiner configured for combining the handwriting context style feature embedding and the input text word embeddings to form a combined feature embedding; a generator configured for generating a synthetic image containing characters occurred in the input text with the handwriting context style defined in the handwriting context style description and context style variability introduced by the generator.

Apparatus and method for producing labelled cursive handwritten text samples with context style variability suitable for forming training data for training machine learning neural networks for cursive handwriting recognition

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Sergio Rodolfo Cruz Gomez