FASTER
Font-Agnostic Scene Text Editing and Rendering Framework
FASTER (Font-Agnostic Scene Text Editing and Rendering Framework) addresses scene text editing — replacing text in natural images while preserving the original font style, background texture, and visual coherence. Published at WACV 2025.
Problem
Existing text editing methods require font labels or rely on style transfer that degrades quality at diverse fonts and backgrounds. FASTER removes this requirement via a font-agnostic rendering pipeline.
Approach
- Style extractor: encodes the glyph style of source text independent of content
- Text renderer: renders new target text using the extracted style embedding
- Background inpainting: fills occluded regions naturally without visible seams
- End-to-end training: jointly optimized on paired synthetic and real-world data
Publication
Das, A. et al. FASTER: A Font-Agnostic Scene Text Editing and Rendering Framework. WACV 2025.