SigNet: Convolutional Siamese Network for Writer Independent Offline Signature Verification
Offline signature verification is one of the most challenging tasks in biometrics and document forensics. Unlike other verification problems, it needs to model minute but critical details between genuine and forged signatures, because a skilled falsification might often resembles the real signature with small deformation. This verification task is even harder in writer independent scenarios which is undeniably fiscal for realistic cases. In this paper, we model an offline writer independent signature verification task with a convolutional Siamese network. Siamese networks are twin networks with shared weights, which can be trained to learn a feature space where similar observations are placed in proximity. This is achieved by exposing the network to a pair of similar and dissimilar observations and minimizing the Euclidean distance between similar pairs while simultaneously maximizing it between dissimilar pairs. Experiments conducted on cross-domain datasets emphasize the capability of our network to model forgery in different languages (scripts) and handwriting styles. Moreover, our designed Siamese network, named SigNet, exceeds the state-of-the-art results on most of the benchmark signature datasets, which paves the way for further research in this direction.
Code (7)
Tasks
Handwriting VerificationSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
An Investigation of Feature Selection and Transfer Learning for Writer-Independent Offline Handwritten Signature Verification
SigNet is a state of the art model for feature representation used for handwritten signature verification (HSV). This representation is based on a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) and contains 2048 dimensions. Wh…
feature selectionPlaying the Game of 2048Transfer LearningMultiscale Feature Learning Using Co-Tuplet Loss for Offline Handwritten Signature Verification
Handwritten signature verification, crucial for legal and financial institutions, faces challenges including inter-writer similarity, intra-writer variations, and limited signature samples. To address these, we introduce…
Metric LearningConsensus-Threshold Criterion for Offline Signature Verification using Convolutional Neural Network Learned Representations
A genuine signer's signature is naturally unstable even at short time-intervals whereas, expert forgers always try to perfectly mimic a genuine signer's signature. This presents a challenge which puts a genuine signer at…
Improving BPSO-based feature selection applied to offline WI handwritten signature verification through overfitting control
This paper investigates the presence of overfitting when using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) to perform the feature selection in a context of Handwritten Signature Verification (HSV). SigNet is a state of the…
feature selectionPlaying the Game of 2048Siamese based Neural Network for Offline Writer Identification on word level data
Handwriting recognition is one of the desirable attributes of document comprehension and analysis. It is concerned with the documents writing style and characteristics that distinguish the authors. The diversity of text …
Handwriting Recognition