Researchers Facebook presented a new self-supervised AI model, “TextStyleBrush” in the Newsroom. Using an image of a word, it can edit and replace the text by copying the font or visual style in which it was written.
The tool works both in handwritten text and in real words. This is something very impressive, because - as Facebook itself states - AI must understand "unlimited" text styles.
You know that there are different types of calligraphy, but also a lot of stylistic details to consider. What if someone writes with slants or curves? Or if the surface the text is on makes it difficult to read? What about his clutter backgroundy or image noise?
Facebook explained that the TextStyleBrush model works in a similar way modeof style tools in text editors, but for text aesthetics in images:
Exceeds state-of-the-art accuracy in both automated testing and user studies for every type of text. (…) We use a more holistic training approach and decouple the content of a text image from all aspects of its appearance in the entire word context. The representation of the total appearances can then be applied as a monochrome transfer.
If you want one more technique analysis of the functions of TextStyleBrush, you can read it full article on Facebook AI blog.
The Google Translate mobile app has a function similar to Facebook's new AI app, as it replaces text, but aims to solve a different problem, translating text into a different language.
