Vanilla Convolutional Neural Network is all you Need for Online and Offline Signature Verification


YILMAZ M. B., Öztürk K.

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, cilt.35, sa.2, ss.357-370, 2025 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 35 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.61822/amcs-2025-0025
  • Dergi Adı: International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Applied Science & Technology Source, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.357-370
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: convolutional neural networks, deep learning, representation learning, signature verification
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Recent advances in deep learning have been utilized successively to improve the performance of signature verification (SV) systems. Deep models proposed in the literature are complicated and need to learn many parameters to give acceptable error rates, requiring a lot of training data. On the other hand, those models are designed and hand-crafted specializing in the problem, online or offline SV. In this work, we suggest and show on popular datasets that similar and simple convolutional neural network (CNN) models can achieve state-of-the-art results both for offline and online SV problems. For offline SV, our work outperforms its counterparts with and without data augmentation. We also show that a very similar CNN architecture can be employed for online SV. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to show that CNNs can be used to learn online signature representations directly from raw data.