{"url":"/dataset/bcsd","name":"BCSD","full_name":"Bank Check Segmentation Dataset","description_markdown":"The dataset consists of images of 158 filled out bank checks containing various complex backgrounds, and handwritten text and signatures in the respective fields, along with both pixel-level and patch-level segmentation masks for the signatures on the checks. Please visit the dataset homepage for more details.\r\n\r\nIf you use this dataset in your work, please include the following citation:\r\n\r\nKhan, Muhammad Saif Ullah. “A Novel Segmentation Dataset for Signatures on Bank Checks.” ArXiv:2104.12203 [Cs], Apr. 2021. arXiv.org, http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12203.\r\n\r\n##### Acknowledgements\r\n[1] P. Dansena, S. Bag, and R. Pal, [“Differentiating Pen Inks in Hand-written Bank Cheques Using Multi-Layer Perceptron”](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-69900-4_83), Proc. of 7th International Conference on Pattern recognition and Machine Intelligence, Kolkata, India, December 2017.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://www.kaggle.com/saifkhichi96/bank-checks-signatures-segmentation-dataset","introduced_date":"2021-04-25","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/a-novel-segmentation-dataset-for-signatures","title":"A novel segmentation dataset for signatures on bank checks","first_author":"Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan","url":null},"license":{"name":"CC0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"modalities":[{"name":"Images","url":"/datasets/modality/images"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Semantic Segmentation","url":"/task/semantic-segmentation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/semantic-segmentation"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["BCSD"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/saifkhichi96/bcsd","url":"https://github.com/saifkhichi96/bcsd","frameworks":["pytorch"]}],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}