You think handwriting is unique and cannot be imitated? We show the contrary in our work. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first paper that synthesizes realistic Western cursive handwriting by mimicking the actual temporal writing process. Our method works nearly fully automatic, e.g. no manual cutting out of characters, and is able to render full lines instead of glyphs/words as in other works.
This dataset was used in the ICDAR2017 Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification (Historical-WI).
The dataset used in this competition consists of
3600 handwritten pages originating from 13th to 20th century. It
contains manuscripts from 720 different writers where each writer ...
This dataset was used in the ICDAR2019 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Documents (ICDAR-2019-HDRC-IR).
The dataset consists of 20 000 document images representing about 10 000 writers, divided in three types: writers of (i) manuscript books, (ii) letters, (iii) charters...
For this year's ICFHR'20, we organize a large-scale image retrieval competition. The task is to find fragments of the same image/from the same writer given a query fragment. To train your system, we created a 100k large training set of fragments. This competition is co-organized by the IRHT/CNRS. F...
