Deep Learning and Fontli

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DEEP LEARNING & FONTLI

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I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

- Douglas Hofstadter

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In Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Douglas Hofstadter gives centre stage to analogy making as a foundation for intelligence

Hofstadter talks about derivative projects – one of which (“Letter Spirit”) is about analogy making in the typography space : the question being “if <word1> : <insert-stylized-word1> then <other-letters> : ?”.

In a sentence, if I show the system a particular stylized presentation of the letters “abcd”, how do you get it to construct other letters such as “wxyz” in the same style.

Deep learning experiment with Fontli

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OUR SEARCH FOR ANSWER …

Is it possible to take a image style and apply to another image?

So we tried it with a bunch of images largely in three classes – type, patterns and semi-realistic pictures – with some surprisingly good and surprisingly crappy results.

TYPE PATTERNS SEMI-REALISTIC

We wanted to try what “taking the style from an image” would do to a dead simple bland piece of text in black and

white – the “content”, shown below.

The image which was passed to neural-style as the “content” image in all the cases.

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DEEPCONVOLUTION

NEURALNETWORK

(DCNN)

The layers of a deep convolution neural network (DCNN) that are closer to the input tend to look at spatially local features

The layers deeper down tend to be concerned with higher level and even conceptual features

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The images were rendered using the 19-layer network which is the default in the neural-style tool

The amount of content has been kept small in these images deliberately – the proportion varying

between 5:1000 and 50:1000

Each image took about 10mins to generate on a g2.2xlarge instance on AWS

DCNN+

FONTLI

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THE RESULTS …

A top favourite. The swirly strokes of the pattern have been beautifully woven to form the letters amidst the chaos of flowy colours.

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THE RESULTS …

The tree pattern has lots of whirlies all over, which appears to be the reason the whirlieshave been used to express the letter shaping. Note that the “n” appears in bold and somewhat like the trunk of the tree.

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THE RESULTS …

The colours and texture of the mat pieces in the style image have been used pretty effectively to create the letters. Again, the “content” is set to low in this case. We’ve also lost some of the regularity of the whole pieces in the style image, which we might consider to be the “content” of the style image.

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THE RESULTS …

The colour palette and the texture of the colouring has transposed nicely on to the result image as expected.

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THE RESULTS …

This is interesting because the vertical strokes of the tree bark have been preserved more or less intact, while locally altering the lines to reveal the letters. The notches in the style image have been used to make the characters. See how the lines converge towards the dot of the “i”.

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THE RESULTS …

One of those exceptional cases where something interesting came out of using a typography image as the style. That said, I had no idea such an image would result –i.e. the result in unpredictable.

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THE RESULTS …

Another favourite. The strokes of the “kolam” pattern and the colourshave been used beautifully to shape the letters.

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THE RESULTS …

The thorny pattern seems to have been used as the “pencil” to draw out the letters this time.

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THE HEAD-SCRATCHERS …

Realistic photographs did absolutely nothing.

Also, since the ImageNet training set doesn’t attempt to teach typography to the neural net, we

also didn’t have much success trying to use the letter styles from an image and apply it to new text.

The results were mixed, with decent results some times, but head-scratchers at other times.

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THE HEAD-SCRATCHERS …

Using real-ishphotographs does absolutely nothing artistically interesting to the text! This turned out to be the crappiest of what we tried :)

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THE HEAD-SCRATCHERS …

We thought the sketchiness would transfer over to the lettering, but that didn’t happen. As noted, this area is a bit unpredictable. Maybe the sketching is quite far away from what we might find in photographs.

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LESSONS LEARNT

What we’ve seen in this quick experiment is that the net trained on real world photos does not quite have

the ability to read typography. This isn’t surprising since typography neither features strongly in the

collection nor have such images been labelled well. That said, we can indeed make some very interesting images that present lettering and we hope to include

this functionality in Fontli.

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