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VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion (arxiv.org)
2 points by GaggiX on Dec 19, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It first sketches each letter as a low-resolution pixel image, then turns that sketch into editable vector curves with exact control points. Compared with earlier vector-graphics generators, it produces better fonts with more complex shapes and a wider range of styles.

Abstract

We present VecFusion, a new neural architecture that can generate vector fonts with varying topological structures and precise control point positions. Our approach is a cascaded diffusion model which consists of a raster diffusion model followed by a vector diffusion model. The raster model generates low-resolution, rasterized fonts with auxiliary control point information, capturing the global style and shape of the font, while the vector model synthesizes vector fonts conditioned on the low-resolution raster fonts from the first stage. To synthesize long and complex curves, our vector diffusion model uses a transformer architecture and a novel vector representation that enables the modeling of diverse vector geometry and the precise prediction of control points. Our experiments show that, in contrast to previous generative models for vector graphics, our new cascaded vector diffusion model generates higher quality vector fonts, with complex structures and diverse styles.

Vikas Thamizharasan, Difan Liu, Shantanu Agarwal, Matthew Fisher, Michael Gharbi, Oliver Wang, Alec Jacobson, Evangelos Kalogerakis
arXiv:2312.10540 · cs.CV, cs.GR · submitted Dec 16, 2023 · updated May 21, 2024
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