Quantum mechanics

Voltage

Scripting language

Visualization

Modality (human–computer interaction)

Operating system

Font

Component (thermodynamics)

Computer science

Natural language processing

Thermodynamics

Physics

Pattern recognition (psychology)

Glyph (data visualization)

Artificial intelligence

Transformer

Encoder

Speech recognition

Generating a new font library is a very labor-intensive and time-consuming job for glyph-rich scripts. Few-shot font generation is thus required, as it requires only a few glyph references without fine-tuning during test. Existing methods follow the style-content disentanglement paradigm and expect novel fonts to be produced by combining the style codes of the reference glyphs and the content representations of the source. However, these few-shot font generation methods either fail to capture content-independent style representations, or employ localized component-wise style representations, which is insufficient to model many Chinese font styles that involve hyper-component features such as inter-component spacing and “connected-stroke”. To resolve these drawbacks and make the style representations more reliable, we propose a self-supervised cross-modality pre-training strategy and a cross-modality transformer-based encoder that is conditioned jointly on the glyph image and the corresponding stroke labels. The cross-modality encoder is pre-trained in a self-supervised manner to allow effective capture of cross- and intra-modality correlations, which facilitates the content-style disentanglement and modeling style representations of all scales (strokelevel, component-level and character-level). The pretrained encoder is then applied to the downstream font generation task without fine-tuning. Experimental comparisons of our method with state-of-the-art methods demonstrate our method successfully transfers styles of all scales. In addition, it only requires one reference glyph and achieves the lowest rate of bad cases in the few-shot font generation task (28% lower than the second best).

XMP-Font: Self-Supervised Cross-Modality Pre-training for Few-Shot Font Generation