The area of Handwritten Signature Verification has been broadly researched in the last decades, but remains an open research problem. The objective of signature verification systems is to discriminate if a given signature is genuine (produced by the claimed individual), or a forgery (produced by an impostor). This has …
Improves signature verification accuracy using deep CNN features.
problem Handwritten signature verification accuracy.
method Deep CNN features combined with writer-independent SVM classifier.
result Proposed approach outperforms other WI-HSV methods.
Paper proposes an ensemble model for writer-independent offline signature verification using deep learning.
problem Difficulty in distinguishing genuine signatures from skilled forgeries in writer-independent offline signature verification.
method Used an ensemble model with two CNNs for feature extraction, RGBT for classification, and stacking for final prediction.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance on various datasets.
Methods for learning feature representations for Offline Handwritten Signature Verification have been successfully proposed in recent literature, using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to learn representations from signature pixels. Such methods reported large performance improvements compared to handcrafted feature …
Automatic Offline Handwritten Signature Verification has been researched over the last few decades from several perspectives, using insights from graphology, computer vision, signal processing, among others. In spite of the advancements on the field, building classifiers that can separate between genuine signatures and…
Research on Offline Handwritten Signature Verification explored a large variety of handcrafted feature extractors, ranging from graphology, texture descriptors to interest points. In spite of advancements in the last decades, performance of such systems is still far from optimal when we test the systems against skilled…
Paper generalizes path signature using fractional calculus for improved machine learning.
problem Improving path signature for machine learning applications.
method Introduces two new signatures inspired by fractional calculus and machine learning considerations.
result Significant accuracy improvements in handwritten digit recognition.
Deep transfer learning from Persian handwriting improves offline signature verification.
problem Challenges in offline signature verification, especially with skilled forgeries and limited training data.
method Transfer learning approach from Persian handwriting to multi-language OSV, using Residual CNNs for feature learning and SVMs for verification.
result Significant improvement in Equal Error Rate (EER) on UT-Sig dataset (9.80% EER), surpassing state-of-the-art methods.
Improved OSV with active transfer learning for Persian signatures.
problem Challenges in OSV with skilled forgeries and limited labeled data.
method Active transfer learning using pre-trained CNN and SVM for active learning.
result Near 13% improvement over random selection and 1% over state-of-the-art.
Study improves offline signature verification by combining multiple loss functions in CNNs.
problem Challenges in offline signature verification, especially forgeries.
method Examined and integrated cross entropy, Cauchy-Schwarz divergence, and hinge loss into a dynamic multi-loss function.
result Substantial improvements in EERs for writer-dependent OSV protocols.
Extends neural network verification to non-linear specifications.
problem Certifying richer properties of neural networks.
method Introduces convex-relaxable specifications for verification.
result Effective verification of important properties like energy conservation and semantic consistency.
We provide an introduction to the signature method, focusing on its theoretical properties and machine learning applications. Our presentation is divided into two parts. In the first part, we present the definition and fundamental properties of the signature of a path. The signature is a sequence of numbers associated …
Deep generative model for healthcare data identifies coherent substructures and mutational clusters.
problem Analytical challenges in healthcare data, including sparsity, missingness, and small sample sizes.
method Proposes a deep generative Bayesian model with collapsed Gibbs sampling for multinomial count data.
result Identifies coherent substructures and biologically meaningful mutational clusters in cancer data.
Signature kernel scoring rule improves weather forecasting by capturing temporal and spatial dependencies.
problem Lack of suitable scoring rules for probabilistic weather forecasting.
method Reframe weather variables as continuous paths using iterated integrals (signature kernels) to capture temporal and spatial dependencies.
result Signature kernel scoring rule outperforms conventional methods in weather forecasting, especially for long-term forecasts.
Research designs first model for Amharic handwritten character recognition.
problem No existing model for Amharic handwritten character recognition.
method Used a convolutional neural network and applied data augmentation and multi-task learning.
result Promising results observed from the enhanced model.
HW2MP-GAN tackles ancient handwritten text recognition.
problem Automatic text recognition from ancient handwritten records.
method Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (HW2MP-GAN) with Sliced Wasserstein distance and U-Net architectures.
result HW2MP-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art models in image-to-image translation and handwritten recognition.
Optimal ANN pre-training with SDA reduces handwritten Bengali digit recognition error to 2.34%
problem Optimizing ANN architecture for Bengali handwritten digit recognition
method Pre-training ANN with stacked denoising autoencoder (SDA)
result Minimum validation error of 2.34% on handwritten Bengali dataset
Classification Ensemble, which uses the weighed polling of outputs, is the art of combining a set of basic classifiers for generating high-performance, robust and more stable results. This study aims to improve the results of identifying the Persian handwritten letters using Error Correcting Output Coding (ECOC) ensemb…
This paper introduces a very challenging dataset of historic German documents and evaluates Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN) based methods to locate handwritten annotations of any kind in these documents. The handwritten annotations can appear in form of underlines and text by using various writing instruments…
The paper presents a recognition system for Pashto letters using KNN and ANN.
problem Challenging handwritten character recognition, especially for Pashto letters.
method Designed a database of 4488 images, used zoning feature extractor, KNN, and ANN classifiers.
result Achieved overall classification accuracy of 70.05% using KNN and 72% using ANN.
New handwritten digits dataset for Kannada script.
problem Lack of datasets for Kannada numeral digits.
method Developed Kannada-MNIST and Dig-MNIST datasets.
result Initial CNN accuracy is lower than MNIST, indicating a challenge in generalization.
End-to-end solution for recognizing handwritten numerals, avoiding traditional preprocessing steps.
problem Handwritten numeral string recognition with traditional preprocessing steps.
method YoLo-based model for automatic detection and recognition, avoiding heuristic-based preprocessing and segmentation.
result Proposed method reduces complexity and is a feasible end-to-end solution for numeral string recognition.
RNN model predicts handwritten characters from accelerometer and gyroscope data.
problem Online handwritten character recognition using sensor data.
method RNN-based neural network trained on gyroscope and accelerometer data.
result High accuracy on test data, achieving character prediction.
A tailored HTR system improves CER to 0.015 for medieval Latin.
problem Digitizing handwritten medieval Latin records for a low-resource language.
method End-to-end pipeline using image segmentation and transformer-based models with extensive data augmentation.
result Best-performing setup achieved CER of 0.015, superior to commercial models.
In the era of deep learning several unsupervised models have been developed to capture the key features in unlabeled handwritten data. Popular among them is the Restricted Boltzmann Machines RBM. However, due to the novelty in handwritten multidialect data, the RBM may fail to generate an efficient representation. In t…
Formalizes weak and strong verification for LLMs, controlling errors without assumptions.
problem Balancing cost and reliability in reasoning with LLMs.
method Formalizes weak-strong verification policies, introduces metrics, develops online algorithm.
result Optimal policies admit a two-threshold structure, and calibration and sharpness govern value of weak verifiers.
We propose a simple kernel based nearest neighbor approach for handwritten digit classification. The "distance" here is actually a kernel defining the similarity between two images. We carefully study the effects of different number of neighbors and weight schemes and report the results. With only a few nearest neighbo…
EEG signals enhance speaker verification system robustness.
problem Improving speaker verification in noisy environments.
method Used end-to-end deep learning model with EEG and speech features.
result EEG signals improve speaker verification robustness, especially in noisy conditions.
Improved CNN for HCCR with new loss function and ranking method.
problem Loss of inter-class information in traditional CNN models for HCCR.
method Combining cross entropy with a new similarity ranking function (Average variance similarity) as loss function.
result New loss function (SoftMax cross entropy with Average variance similarity) achieves highest accuracy in HCCR.
We improve neural network robustness verification by training for faster stability.
problem Efficient verification of adversarial robustness in deep networks.
method Co-design of weight sparsity and ReLU stability to simplify verification.
result Improving ReLU stability leads to a 4-13x speedup in verification times.
The paper approaches the task of handwritten text recognition (HTR) with attentional encoder-decoder networks trained on sequences of characters, rather than words. We experiment on lines of text from popular handwriting datasets and compare different activation functions for the attention mechanism used for aligning i…
Develops first robustness verification for complex Transformers.
problem Certify prediction behavior of Transformers with complex self-attention layers.
method Resolves challenges of cross-nonlinearity and cross-position dependency in Transformers.
result Certified robustness bounds are significantly tighter than Interval Bound Propagation.
Paper develops PAC verification for hypothesis classes and statistical algorithms.
problem Verifying machine learning models interactively.
method Develops interactive proof for PAC verification, proves lower bounds, and introduces a generalization.
result Improved protocol for verifying unions of intervals and statistical query algorithms.
Sparse DNN challenge aims to improve graph data analysis.
problem Scalability issues in sparse data analysis.
method Mathematically defined DNN inference, vertex-centric and array-based implementations.
result Performance predictions based on simple hardware models.
Paper optimizes hypothesis verification in sequential experiments.
problem Maximizing confidence in a verified hypothesis after exploration.
method Formulated as a confidence maximization problem in a POMDP, characterized optimal solutions, and proposed a heuristic.
result Heuristic performs better than existing methods in some scenarios.
EASTER improves OCR efficiency and scalability.
problem Efficient and scalable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for machine printed and handwritten text.
method 1-D convolutional layers without recurrence, parallel training, synthetic dataset generation.
result EASTER achieves comparable performance to complex RNN models with less data and outperforms them on benchmark datasets.
Accelerates DNN robustness verification with target labels.
problem Improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks.
method Guiding robustness verification with target labels, reducing search space and using symbolic interval propagation and linear relaxation.
result Significantly improves DNN verification speed by 36X, especially when perturbation distance is reasonable.
New methods combat data poisoning attacks in bandit algorithms using limited verification.
problem Data poisoning attacks on bandit algorithms, especially in the UCB and ETC types.
method Verification-based mechanisms to restore optimal regret with limited verifications.
result A simple modified ETC type bandit algorithm can restore optimal regret with O(logT) verifications. Improved speaker verification with condition-aware backend.
problem Speaker verification calibration issues under unknown conditions.
method Discriminative PLDA model with joint training and condition integration.
result Out-of-the-box excellent calibration performance.
New algorithm speeds up robustness verification for tree-based models.
problem Formal robustness verification of tree-based models, especially ensembles.
method Reformulated as max-clique problem on a multi-partite graph with bounded boxicity; developed efficient multi-level verification algorithm.
result Tight lower bounds on robustness of decision tree ensembles, hundreds of times faster than previous approach.
Improves neural network verification by merging abstract domains and Lagrangian methods.
problem Prove provable bounds for neural network outputs given input ranges.
method Uses zonotopes within a Lagrangian decomposition to verify deep neural networks.
result Yields bounds that improve upon existing techniques in both time and tightness.
This paper explores formal verification for autonomous systems, identifying limitations and proposing improvements.
problem Ensuring safety of autonomous systems like self-driving cars and drones.
method Formal verification techniques based on formal methods, analyzing three assumptions and their limitations.
result Preliminary work to improve the strength of evidence provided by formal verification.
Hybrid model learns novel handwritten characters better than neural or symbolic models alone.
problem Generating novel yet structured concepts.
method Neuro-symbolic model combining neural networks and probabilistic programs.
result Hybrid model outperforms alternative models in learning and generalizing novel handwritten characters.
Paper develops a model for verifying facts in tables without pre-retrieved evidence.
problem Verification of factual claims in structured data, especially in open-domain settings.
method Joint reranking-and-verification model that fuses evidence documents.
result Model achieves comparable performance to closed-domain state-of-the-art on TabFact dataset.
Paper tackles speaker verification by removing reverberation using deep LSTM networks.
problem Improving speaker verification accuracy in reverberant environments.
method Dual-label deep LSTM networks trained to map reverberant to clean speech features.
result Evaluates performance using EERs, showing improved accuracy.
New neural network boosts authorship verification on social media.
problem Challenges in verifying authorship of short, diverse social media messages.
method Proposes a new neural network topology for similarity learning.
result Significantly improved performance on author verification tasks.
This study examines how hidden layers affect CNN performance on handwritten digit recognition.
problem Impact of hidden layers on CNN performance in handwritten digit recognition.
method Applied CNN with varying hidden layers on MNIST dataset, trained with stochastic gradient and backpropagation, tested with feedforward.
result Variations in accuracies for different hidden layers and epochs.
EdgeNet improves Arabic numeral classification accuracy to 99.59%.
problem Improving accuracy in Arabic numeral classification.
method Unified dataset and a novel deep model with residual connections.
result Proposed model achieves 99.59% accuracy on validation set.