Diffusion Model for Handwriting Generation

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Data preparation:

Download IAM Handwriting Database and extract it somewhere with the following structure:

DATA_DIR/
├── ascii
├── lineImages
└── lineStrokes

Install:

make install

Train:

First, configure your training in configs/<cfg>.yml:

experiment:
  name: <exp_name>
  work_dir: <work_dir>
  data_dir: <data_dir>

Then, run:

make train CONFIG=<cfg>.yml

References:

Papers
[1] Luhman, Troy, and Eric Luhman. "Diffusion models for handwriting generation." arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06704 (2020).