# DeepGenStruct-Notebooks

TLDR: Fonts constitute an awesome, free and untapped resource for training text image recognition models.
Train on synthetic data (fonts) and transfer to handwritten digits.

Citation:

Vinay Uday Prabhu, Sanghyun Han, Dian Ang Yap, Mihail Douhaniaris, Preethi Seshadri and John Whaley,
_Fonts-2-Handwriting: A Seed-Augment-Train framework for universal digit classification_
, Proceedings, ICLR 2019 Workshop on Deep Generative Models for Highly Structured Data, May 2019,  New Orleans, USA

BibTex:

@InProceedings{Prabhu2019SAT,
author = {Vinay Uday Prabhu, Sanghyun Han, Dian Ang Yap, Mihail Douhaniaris, Preethi Seshadri and John Whaley},
journal = {Proceedings, ICLR 2019 Workshop on Deep Generative Models for Highly Structured Data },
pages = {1--11},
title = {	Fonts-2-Handwriting: A Seed-Augment-Train framework for universal digit classification },
year = {2019}
}

