News
 The AFHA workshop and tutorial report is online here
Also published in the IAPR TC-11 Newsletter September 2011
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The Workshop AFHA is to be held in the Room #3 of Building 8 of the Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China. For further details click here
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The proceedings of the AFHA 2011 are now online @ http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-768
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The registration fees have been fixed now. The two-day registration including all lunch and coffee breaks will be USD 140 (student fee: USD 80). Registration is done at the ICDAR website.
Welcome
We are pleased to announce the 1st Int. Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis to be held as a satellite workshop of the ICDAR 2011 in Beijing, China during September 17-18, 2011. The AFHA 2011 is a novel approach of bringing together researchers in the field of automated handwriting analysis and signature verification and experts from the forensic handwriting examination community. It is organized as a two-day combined workshop and tutorial.
On the first day, an introductory tutorial on forensic handwriting examination will be given. This includes a description of the forensics point of view and examples of real casework as well as a summary of important approaches in the area of automated handwriting examination.
On the second day, a workshop about recent research activities will be held. First, Participants with accepted report papers will get the opportunity to talk about their research. Subsequently, in a panel discussion session, all participants will be able to state their points of view and discuss together about selected topics of the community. This unique combination of tutorial and workshop will be beneficial for newcomers in that field, as well as for persons who have interesting ongoing research results and want to discuss about them and other topics in a broad group consisting of experts from the document analysis field as well as experts from the forensic handwriting examination community.
Every registration is for the combined workshop/tutorial.
Coverage of Topics
We encourage the participants to submit reports (up to 5 pages, IEEE format ) on ongoing research as well as papers on novel directions in the following fields:
- Forensic handwriting verification/identification
- Forensic signature verification/identification
- Strength of evidence: Bayesian statistics/networks
- 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
The proceedings will be made available electronically as Open Access on the web before the workshop starts
Important Dates
| | Paper Submission: | June 30, 2011 (extended due to large request) |
| | Acceptance Notification: | July 15, 2011 |
| | Camera-Ready Submission: | August 15, 2011 |
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Proceedings Publication Format: Electronic and on the Web
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