Controllable Artistic Text Style Transfer via Shape-Matching GAN
This work addresses the open challenge of shape deformation control in artistic text style transfer, which is incremental as it builds on existing texture control methods to enhance usability for typography and design applications.
The paper tackles the problem of controlling shape deformation in artistic text style transfer by introducing a bidirectional shape matching framework and a scale-controllable module, achieving real-time control over stylistic degree and demonstrating superiority over previous state-of-the-art methods in generating diverse, controllable, and high-quality stylized text.
Artistic text style transfer is the task of migrating the style from a source image to the target text to create artistic typography. Recent style transfer methods have considered texture control to enhance usability. However, controlling the stylistic degree in terms of shape deformation remains an important open challenge. In this paper, we present the first text style transfer network that allows for real-time control of the crucial stylistic degree of the glyph through an adjustable parameter. Our key contribution is a novel bidirectional shape matching framework to establish an effective glyph-style mapping at various deformation levels without paired ground truth. Based on this idea, we propose a scale-controllable module to empower a single network to continuously characterize the multi-scale shape features of the style image and transfer these features to the target text. The proposed method demonstrates its superiority over previous state-of-the-arts in generating diverse, controllable and high-quality stylized text.