TY - CONF T1 - Handwriting matching and its application to handwriting synthesis T2 - Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Y1 - 2005 A1 - Yefeng Zheng A1 - David Doermann KW - (artificial KW - deformation KW - deformation; KW - handwriting KW - image KW - intelligence); KW - learning KW - learning; KW - matching; KW - point KW - recognition; KW - sampling; KW - SHAPE KW - synthesis; AB - Since it is extremely expensive to collect a large volume of handwriting samples, synthesized data are often used to enlarge the training set. We argue that, in order to generate good handwriting samples, a synthesis algorithm should learn the shape deformation characteristics of handwriting from real samples. In this paper, we present a point matching algorithm to learn the deformation, and apply it to handwriting synthesis. Preliminary experiments show the advantages of our approach. JA - Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on M3 - 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.122 ER -