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arxivcs.CV2026-07-03

Handwriting Trajectory Recovery with Diffusion Models

Hiroki Nagamatsu, Shoji Toyota, Seiichi Uchida

Recovering online pen trajectories from offline handwriting images, often referred to as handwriting trajectory recovery (stroke recovery), is an offline-to-online conversion task with applications in stroke-level editing and forensic analysis. We propose, to the best of our knowledge, the first diffusion-model-based framework for this task. Our method formulates trajectory recovery as image-conditioned generation and uses a denoising diffusion model to sample pen trajectories consistent with the observed ink trace. Through extensive quantitative evaluations on CASIA-OLHWDB (1.0-1.1), we verify that the proposed approach enables accurate recovery even for complex multi-stroke characters, substantially improving both temporal similarity (DTW/LDTW) and shape fidelity (AIoU) over representative prior methods such as PEN-Net and Cross-VAE. We further show that the model captures general stroke-order tendencies and generalizes to classes unseen during training, exemplified by cross-script transfer: a model trained on Chinese characters can recover reasonable stroke orders for Latin letters to some extent.

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