Handwriting Verification

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

5 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

6 shown of 6 papers with code (6 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• SigNet: Convolutional Siamese Network for Writer Independent Offline Signature Verification
  7 Jul 2017 7 repositories listed
  Offline signature verification is one of the most challenging tasks in biometrics and document forensics.
• Self-Supervised Learning Based Handwriting Verification
  28 May 2024 1 repository listed
  We present SSL-HV: Self-Supervised Learning approaches applied to the task of Handwriting Verification.
• MSDS: A Large-Scale Chinese Signature and Token Digit String Dataset for Handwriting Verification
  17 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  MSDS-ChS consists of handwritten Chinese signatures, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the largest publicly available Chinese signature dataset for handwriting verification, at least eight times larger than…
• Attention based Writer Independent Handwriting Verification
  7 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  The task of writer verification is to provide a likelihood score for whether the queried and known handwritten image samples belong to the same writer or not.
• Explanation based Handwriting Verification
  14 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  The dataset is released for publicuse and the methods can be extended to provide explanations on other verification taskslike face verification and bio-medical comparison.
• Hybrid Feature Learning for Handwriting Verification
  19 Nov 2018 1 repository listed
  Experiments are performed by complementing one of the HEF methods with one ALF method on 150000 pairs of samples of the word "AND" cropped from handwritten notes written by 1500 writers.