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We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Instead of using pixel-by-pixel loss, we enforce deep feature consistency between the input and the output of a VAE, which ensures the VAE's output to preserve the…

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In this work, a feature extraction method for offline signature verification is presented that harnesses the power of sparse representation in order to deliver state-of-the-art verification performance in several signature datasets like…

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We propose a method to remotely verify the authenticity of Optically Variable Devices (OVDs), often referred to as ``holograms'', in identity documents. Our method processes video clips captured with smartphones under common lighting…

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Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of highly realistic image forgeries, raising significant concerns about digital media authenticity. While existing detection methods demonstrate promising…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

We present a new method for improving the performances of variational autoencoder (VAE). In addition to enforcing the deep feature consistent principle thus ensuring the VAE output and its corresponding input images to have similar deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xianxu Hou , Ke Sun , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

Physical imaging is a foundational characterization method in areas from condensed matter physics and chemistry to astronomy and spans length scales from atomic to universe. Images encapsulate crucial data regarding atomic bonding,…

This paper presents a novel approach to the digital signing of electronic documents through the use of a camera-based interaction system, single-finger tracking for sign recognition, and multi commands executing hand gestures. The proposed…

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The framework of variational autoencoders (VAEs) provides a principled method for jointly learning latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. However, the main drawback of this approach is the blurriness of the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Jakub M. Tomczak

We present an object detection based approach to localize handwritten regions from documents, which initially aims to enhance the anonymization during the data transmission. The concatenated fusion of original and preprocessed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yuli Wu , Yucheng Hu , Suting Miao

Recent advances in AI technology have made the forgery of digital images and videos easier, and it has become significantly more difficult to identify such forgeries. These forgeries, if disseminated with malicious intent, can negatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Chia-Mu Yu , Ching-Tang Chang , Yen-Wu Ti

Deepfake detection remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of generalizing to new types of forgeries. This problem primarily stems from the overfitting of existing detection methods to forgery-irrelevant features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhiyuan Yan , Yong Zhang , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu

This study investigates the vulnerabilities of data-driven offline signature verification (DASV) systems to generative attacks and proposes robust countermeasures. Specifically, we explore the efficacy of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 An Ngo , Rajesh Kumar , Phuong Cao

Hand image synthesis and pose estimation from RGB images are both highly challenging tasks due to the large discrepancy between factors of variation ranging from image background content to camera viewpoint. To better analyze these factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Linlin Yang , Angela Yao

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

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 the MultiScale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fu-Hsien Huang , Hsin-Min Lu

Large and well-annotated datasets are essential for advancing deep learning applications, however often costly or impossible to obtain by a single entity. In many areas, including the medical domain, approaches relying on data sharing have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Francesco Di Salvo , David Tafler , Sebastian Doerrich , Christian Ledig

Due to their unsupervised training and uncertainty estimation, deep Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have become powerful tools for reconstruction-based Time Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD). Existing VAE-based TSAD methods, either…

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Online fraud often involves identity theft. Since most security measures are weak or can be spoofed, we investigate a more nuanced and less explored avenue: behavioral biometrics via handwriting movements. This kind of data can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Luis A. Leiva , Moises Diaz , Miguel A. Ferrer , Réjean Plamondon

A verification code is an automated test method used to distinguish between humans and computers. Humans can easily identify verification codes, whereas machines cannot. With the development of convolutional neural networks, automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dongliang Xu , Bailing Wang , XiaoJiang Du , Xiaoyan Zhu , zhitao Guan , Xiaoyan Yu , Jingyu Liu

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. When transposed to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Victor L. F. Souza , Adriano L. I. Oliveira , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Robert Sabourin