char-vae

Generating embedding vectors of characters from their images via VAE

Development environment

python 3.5.1

chainer 1.24.0

see also requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Making Vectors

Prepare a target font file. For example, you can get a free font from https://okoneya.jp/font/download.html

Make training images with the target font

python gen_char_images.py <path and name of your font file>

char_image.pklb will be generated.

Run training script with the generated file.

python charvae_train_v0.py

Note: Cofigurations for training are specified in charvae_train_v0.py