Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Prevention of forgeries in documents
  • Detection of forged documents
  • Detection of fake documents
  • Detection of forgeries in printed and rescanned documents
  • Authentication of documents
  • Forgery localisation
  • Copyright protection
  • Watermarking
  • Digital signatures
  • Forensic handwriting verification/identification 
  • Forensic signature verification/identification 
  • Within writer versus between writer variations 
  • Determining the frequency of occurrence of handwriting features 
  • Automated signature identification and verification 
  • Automated handwriting identification and verification 
  • Extraction of movement order features out of the ink trace
  • Expert results vs. system outputs
  • Allograph matching and clustering
  • Classification of signatures: legible vs. illegible, complex vs. simple
  • Taxonomy of features