Unsupervised Chinese Typography Transfer

Demo and Details

See https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/31619824

Or https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02595 for details

Prerequisite

Install Python3 (>=3.5)

Put two fonts (NotoSansCJK.ttc, NotoSerifCJK.ttc) under the ./fonts folder.

Installation

Type the following command in shell:

  pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

If you have a GPU that supports CUDA, replace tensorflow with tensorflow-gpu in requirements.txt

Create sample from fonts

Run

  make sample

under the root directory of the project.

Train a model

Run

  python3 train.py

Monitor the progress with Tensorboard

While the model is being trained, open a new tab and type

  tensorboard --logdir ./board

Acknowledgements

Code derived from:

• zi2zi by Yuchen Tian

Network architecture derived from:

• Chinese typography transfer by Jie Chang and Yujun Gu

License

Apache 2.0