Fourth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT'04)
Interactive System for Handwritten-Style Font Generation
Wuhan, China
September 14-September 16
ISBN: 0-7695-2216-5
People enjoy using a characteristic font to reflect their individual handwriting, because typical fonts used in document creation with a word processor and on the Internet are uniform and lack individuality. Since many characters are used in the Japanese language, it is very difficult to generate a font for an individual. This paper describes a generation method for a handwritten-style font that reflects an individual?s handwriting. A font set is generated from a user?s input strokes, which correspond to one or more reference strokes. A compression method generates the reference strokes from the original input strokes by using vector quantization. The font is also applicable to characters that include connected strokes. A Fourier descriptor is applied to connect each stroke and construct a smoothly connected line. The cost incurred to generate a font for a user is low, as the font is interactively generated on demand using several parameters. A strongly individual font, a standard font, and a font that includes many connected strokes are generated on the user?s demand. Two evaluation experiments involving 14 subjects show that a generated font reflects user?s individual handwriting, using both subjective and objective criteria.