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BoundInk advances AI-generated handwriting by explicitly modeling inter-character boundaries rather than relying solely on implicit long-range sequence modeling, addressing common issues like broken cursive joins and inconsistent spacing. This writer-conditioned framework demonstrates significant improvements in dynamic time warping metrics and achieves high preference rates in blind human evaluations across multiple benchmarks. The work represents a meaningful step forward in machine learning applications for realistic text generation and computer vision tasks involving handwriting synthesis.
BoundInk: Boundary-Aware Online Handwriting Generation
arXiv:2604.02103v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic online handwriting depends not only on individual character shapes, but also on how a writer connects, spaces, and aligns adjacent characters. Existing methods rely primarily on long-range sequence modeling and capture these inter-character behaviors only implicitly. This often produces plausible glyphs accompanied by broken cursive joins, inconsistent spacing, or writer-inconsistent transitions. We introduce BoundInk, a writer-conditioned framework that treats inter-character boundaries as explicit generation units. By jointly modeling local transitions and surrounding text context, BoundInk preserves writer-specific glyph appearance while improving connectivity and spacing across complete text lines. We further introduce a boundary-aware evaluation framework that directly assesses cursive continuity and spatial relationships between characters beyond conventional trajectory similarity. Across three benchmark-matched settings, BoundInk improves all applicable boundary-quality measures and reduces normalized dynamic time warping by 17.6--47.8%. In blind human evaluations, BoundInk outputs are preferred in 78.0--82.6% of valid criterion-wise judgments.
Abstract:Realistic online handwriting depends not only on individual character shapes, but also on how a writer connects, spaces, and aligns adjacent characters. Existing methods rely primarily on long-range sequence modeling and capture these inter-character behaviors only implicitly. This often produces plausible glyphs accompanied by broken cursive joins, inconsistent spacing, or writer-inconsistent transitions. We introduce BoundInk, a writer-conditioned framework that treats inter-character boundaries as explicit generation units. By jointly modeling local transitions and surrounding text context, BoundInk preserves writer-specific glyph appearance while improving connectivity and spacing across complete text lines. We further introduce a boundary-aware evaluation framework that directly assesses cursive continuity and spatial relationships between characters beyond conventional trajectory similarity. Across three benchmark-matched settings, BoundInk improves all applicable boundary-quality measures and reduces normalized dynamic time warping by 17.6--47.8%. In blind human evaluations, BoundInk outputs are preferred in 78.0--82.6% of valid criterion-wise judgments.
22 pages. Major revision. Renamed from "CASHG: Context-Aware Stylized Online Handwriting Generation" to "BoundInk: Boundary-Aware Online Handwriting Generation". The manuscript has been substantially revised with explicit inter-character boundary modeling, boundary-aware evaluation metrics, expanded experiments, and updated appendices
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2604.02103 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2604.02103v3 [cs.CV] for this version)
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