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OTR: Synthesizing Overlay Text Dataset for Text Removal

Text removal is a crucial task in computer vision with applications such as privacy preservation, image editing, and media reuse. While existing research has primarily focused on …

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Jan Zdenek

Controllable Font Style for Visual Text Generation Using Reference Images

The rapid development of diffusion-based generative models has significantly advanced the field of text-to-image generation, enabling high-quality image creation for diverse …

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Jan Zdenek

Handwritten Text Generation with Character-specific Encoding for Style Imitation

We propose a novel method for handwritten text generation that uses a style encoder based on a vision transformer network. The style encoder encodes handwriting style from …

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Jan Zdenek

Meta Approach to Data Augmentation Optimization

Data augmentation policies drastically improve the performance of image recognition tasks, especially when the policies are optimized for the target data and tasks. In this paper, …

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JokerGAN: Memory-Efficient Model for Handwritten Text Generation with Text Line Awareness

Collecting labeled data for training of models for image recognition problems, including handwritten text recognition (HTR), is a tedious and expensive task. Recent work on …

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Jan Zdenek

Faster AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Strategies using Backpropagation

Data augmentation methods are indispensable heuristics to boost the performance of deep neural networks, especially in image recognition tasks. Recently, several studies have shown …

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Erasing Scene Text With Weak Supervision

Scene text erasing is a task of removing text from natural scene images, which has been gaining attention in recent years. The main motivation is to conceal private information …

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Jan Zdenek

Bag of Local Convolutional Triplets for Script Identification in Scene Text

The increasing interest in scene text reading in multilingual environments raises the need to recognize and distinguish between different writing systems. In this paper, we propose …

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Jan Zdenek