Research Article

Separating Chinese Character from Noisy Background Using GAN

Figure 10

Results of separating handwritten Chinese characters from superimposed printed characters in Imitation Song font. Columns from left to right: printed characters, synthesized handwritten/printed overlapped data sample in test set, results of ESRGAN and DESRGAN, and ground truth. Stokes or fine details of reconstructed handwriting are clipped and enlarged for further examination.