The line between the real and the virtual is gradually blurring.
From the endless virtual people to the virtual land priced at 15.5 million yuan, the cross-dimensional phenomenon has taken turns.
Whether it is entertainment, social networking, or real estate and many other fields, they all intend to catch this express train of "everything can be digitized" and seize a wave of industry dividends.
Baidu input method is no exception.
At the Baidu Create Conference, Baidu Input Method [AI Character Future Pavilion] was officially launched in the virtual world. One can not only appreciate the handwriting of many of the ancient celebrities who have been successfully restored, but also taste the handwriting of contemporary figures and their handwriting stories.
Baidu input method AI character future museum panorama
It can be said that in ancient times, there were Cangjie characters, and now there are Baidu input method AI characters.
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The future of font jianghu AI writing another possibility
This year's font is full of storms.
It is understood that there are 6763 Chinese characters in the commonly used Chinese simplified Chinese characters. A set of style font libraries needs to design about 10,000 characters and punctuation marks, up to a maximum of more than 70,000 words.
Designers of traditional font companies can design unique individual Chinese fonts, but it is difficult to complete the entire design independently. After all, a series of processes such as creativity, word selection, determination, spelling, and automatic sub-packaging need to be carefully outlined and adjusted by the designer one by one, and the cost of font production can be seen.
There is no doubt that making words in the real world is not an easy task. But with the advancement of science and technology, people will find that AI is liberating type designers, and even allowing every ordinary person to have their own unique font.
The AI font exhibition built by Baidu input method is the best example.
After visitors enter the virtual font exhibition, they will see the handwriting display of ancient celebrities such as Qianlong, Su Shi, Tang Xuanzong, Tang Bohu on the left side, Baidu input method through AI character technology, successfully restored the handwriting of these ancient celebrities, so that the Chinese character style through the millennium.
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On the other side of the AI Character Creation Future Museum, there is a modern character area, and the handwriting and handwriting stories of Island teacher Chen Dandan, post-90s writer Ding Hao, talented young talent Zhong Zilin, Baidu input method classmates and others are also very moving.
It can be said that the revolution in Baidu input method in font generation technology can be called hardcore. Behind this, it is its powerful AI technology that supports and assists. Baidu input method through AI word technology, to achieve only 12 handwritten, you can generate exclusive fonts, greatly reducing the threshold of font generation.
The core of Baidu's input method AI word creation function lies in CycleGAN, which is produced by customizing a model for each set of fonts. It is reported that in the previous cycleGAN or Pix2Pix-based solutions, the most common problem is that the user's writing style cannot be maintained, and the other is that there are a large number of typos in the generated words, which are difficult to use as fonts.
In order to ensure that the style of the generated font is consistent with the writing, the Baidu team designed the Style Feature Supervision framework, which extracts the style characteristics of the VGG network for supervision, and models the handwriting style characteristics of the user as a whole.
At the same time, a set of end-to-end training schemes that connect CycleGAN and OCR recognition model are developed, and the character category supervision of the OCR recognition model is used to greatly reduce the generated typo rate. Finally, a discrimination mechanism for refining the details of the generated font is established, which makes the generated result more in line with the look and feel of the font.
It is worth mentioning that Baidu Input Method adopts security measures to ensure the security of the user's handwriting data throughout the process, and will not share the user's font package with anyone without the user's authorization and consent.
It is said that the middle current hits the water, and the strivers enter.
It is not difficult to find that Baidu input method is seizing the opportunity to continue its long-standing AI technology advantages in the future and release greater potential.
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Deep ploughing wisdom input fully releases vitality and empowers hundreds of industries
Jobs once said that the development of technology is difficult, but it is more difficult to find application scenarios for technology.
Baidu input method, which is well versed in this way, has long targeted a broad commercial market for AI word making technology.
You know, whether it is the eye-catching words in the product poster, or the classic slogan in the advertising film, and the film and television title display, etc., these seemingly daily uses may contain a font cost.
In the face of tens of thousands of font royalties, the Baidu input method AI word making technology that came into being not only lowered the threshold of handwriting and simplified the process of creation and production by font companies, but also brought new choices to the majority of enterprises: through AI word making technology to create fonts, save costs and avoid infringement.
In fact, the application of AI word making technology to font commercialization to help corporate brand promotion and cultural promotion is only one of the important directions in Baidu Input Method Smart Input Solution, and Baidu Input Method has many other directions of smart input solutions.
Relying on Baidu's core AI technologies such as voice, NLP, handwriting, OCR, and knowledge graph, Baidu Input Method takes the lead in breaking through the digital barriers of the industry, extending to enterprise service fields in various industries such as finance, retail, energy, education, and medical care, and providing smart input solutions for application scenarios such as smart office, smart marketing, and smart terminals.
Take the enterprise office scenario as an example. Baidu Smart Input creates input solutions for office scenarios for customers through intelligent inputs such as industry customized thesaurus and industry voice inputs, combined with Baidu AI core technology matrix such as knowledge graphs, NLP and search service advantages.
Customers of Baidu Smart Input can improve the office efficiency of employees to a greater extent, including allowing employees to quickly retrieve relevant internal materials, literature review, barrier-free reading of foreign languages, and improve the efficiency of conference communication.
In terms of smart marketing, Baidu Smart Input can customize the brand skin for customers, when the brand user uses the enterprise brand skin, through the exclusive marketing module customized for the brand, the marketing information of the brand customer can accurately reach the user, so the enterprise can carry out private domain traffic operation.
For example, Baidu Smart Input and Minsheng Bank cooperated to launch the "Minsheng Keyboard Bank", using the input method as the carrier to successfully create the industry's first smart marketing solution, and boost the transformation and upgrading of the industry by providing perfect solutions.
In addition, Baidu smart input is also in the smart terminal, in addition to supporting Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, but also with UOS, Kirin and other domestic operating systems adapted, fully covering mobile phones, tablets, computers, cars, TVs, watches, counters, conference screens and other smart devices, coupled with rich experience in terminal customization, which can provide enterprises with humanized input functions in specific scenarios and devices, and enhance the customer experience they serve.
There is no doubt that as one of the internet applications with the highest frequency of appearances, input tools are no longer just to meet the communication needs of people, but with the iteration of market demand, it has become the best assistant for enterprises with intelligent cognitive capabilities, empowering higher forms of the market.
According to a survey by Ai Media Consulting, in the third quarter of 2021, Baidu's input method market share reached 44%, with 559 million monthly active users, becoming the "double material first" in the third-party mobile phone input method industry; and its AI function innovation will become the core competitiveness of the input method brand.
Especially in September this year, after the AI character-making function was launched on the Baidu Input Method APP, it attracted more than 500,000 people, including celebrities, artists, calligraphers, students, teachers, etc., and generated more than one million sets of fonts.
It effectively integrates creativity and fun, so that people who pursue trends and personalities can use their own handwritten fonts to convey information, express emotions and love.
More importantly, as the core carrier of traditional Chinese culture, Chinese characters exist as a culture in themselves.
In addition to some of the ancient celebrity fonts presented in the font exhibition, Baidu Input Method also cooperated with Wang Xizhi's hometown Shengzhou Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism Bureau to successfully restore and generate Wang Xizhi's font through AI character making technology, and launched the font online in the Baidu Input Method APP for everyone to use, reflecting the important mission of science and technology to inherit Chinese culture.
It can be said that whether it is the B-side or the C-end, Baidu input method stands out in the fierce input method battle.
Regarding the future, the movie "Ready Player One" had a beautiful prediction.
In the virtual oasis, everyone has a free character, and the rich digital content and items can circulate freely. Anyone in reality has the opportunity to transform into a superhero.
The Baidu input method "AI character" is like an oasis in the field of fonts, bringing unlimited imagination.
Through the combination of modern technology and traditional writing, Baidu input method conveys the personality and emotions of each ordinary person; and allows Chinese character writing to be inherited and carried forward, fully releasing the unique charm of Chinese culture.
At the same time, the commercialization track of the input method has just begun, and compared with the bloody battle posture of "doing its best in one battle", it is better to find a certain area of advantage to explore the possibility of early card slots.
With powerful AI technology, Baidu input method is leading the way.
This article is written by leven
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