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Kaiyuan Liu, Jiahao Mei, Hengyu Zhang, Yihuai Zhang, Daoguo Dong, Liang He

Moyun, a diffusion model, generates style-specific Chinese calligraphy characters by integrating a Vision Mamba architecture and a TripleLabel control mechanism. The model achieves fine-grained control over calligrapher, font, and character attributes, demonstrating high fidelity and zero-shot generalization to unseen stylistic combinations, supported by the new large-scale Mobao dataset.

Key insights

  • Vision Mamba's State Space Model architecture effectively models complex contextual relationships and intricate stroke structures in calligraphy, outperforming traditional UNet-based approaches.
  • Disentangling calligrapher, font, and character attributes into additive embeddings enables precise, computationally efficient multi-conditional control and robust zero-shot generalization.
  • The novel SAM-based binarization technique significantly improves the quality of historical calligraphy images, making them suitable for training advanced deep generative models.

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