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Could this be used to generate simple missing characters in Western fonts too? For example many nice fonts are missing Greek letters (useful for science), punct

• kaonashi-tyc-01 10y ago
  Should have no problem since this model works end-2-end, so only images are required. However, one worry is that the number of glphys for western language is significant smaller than eastern Asian languages, the styles to model might be a lot more than the demonstrated case here which will lead to an explosive size of discriminator, so some structure change might need to take place before applying to western alphabet
• kem 10y ago
  Funny, I had the exact same question, and spent the last hour or so looking into it before I saw your question. In something I've been writing lately, I've wanted to be able to use certain typefaces, but they lack mathematical symbols or characters. It's something I run into repeatedly. Earlier today, before I saw this post, I was thinking maybe I should just add them, because they're open source, but then when I saw this I wondered "could you just do this with an autoencoder or AN or whatever?" It seems very doable. There are typefaces with them; the issue is creating the missing characters for the typefaces that don't have them, but have other characters.