November 17th, 2020 
Daniela Lopez de Luise
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ICDAR 2021 On-Line Signature Verification Competition (SVC 2021)
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the ICDAR 2021 On-Line Signature Verification Competition (SVC 2021) to be organized in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 5-10 September 2021, Lausanne (Switzerland).
Links
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Website: https://sites.google.com/view/SVC2021/home
CodaLab: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/27295
Overview
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The goal of the SVC 2021 competition is to evaluate the limits of on-line signature verification systems using large-scale public databases and popular scenarios (office/mobile), and the stylus/finger as writing input. On-line signature verification technology is evolving fast in the last years due to several factors such as: i) the evolution in the acquisition technology going from the original Wacom devices specifically designed to acquire handwriting and signature in office-like scenarios through a pen stylus to the current touch screens of mobile scenarios in which signatures can be captured anywhere using our own personal smartphone through the finger, and ii) the extended usage of deep learning technology in many different areas, overcoming traditional handcrafted approaches and even human performance.
Therefore, in this competition the goal is to carry out a benchmark evaluation of the latest on-line signature verification technology using large-scale public databases such as DeepSignDB and both traditional office-like scenarios (pen stylus), but also the challenging mobile scenarios with signatures performed using the finger over a touch screen. The SVC 2021 competition will provide a complete panorama of the state of the art in the on-line signature verification field under realistic scenarios.
Tasks
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· Task 1: Analysis of office scenarios using the stylus as input.
· Task 2: Analysis of mobile scenarios using the finger as input.
· Task 3: Analysis of both office and mobile scenarios simultaneously.
In addition, both random and skilled forgeries will be considered in each Task.
Awards
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If enough interest is received from the community (more than 5 different participants beating the baseline algorithms), then the winner of the SVC 2021 competition will receive a monetary award of 300 EUR (as an Amazon gift card). In addition, a selection of the best on-line signature verification systems will have the opportunity to take part as co-authors in a joint paper describing the SVC 2021 competition results.
Registration
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The platform used in the SVC 2021 competition is CodaLab. Participants need to register to take part in the competition. Please, follow the instructions:
1) Fill up this form including your information.
2) Sing up in CodaLab using the same email introduced in step 1).
3) Join in CodaLab to the ICDAR 2021 On-Line Signature Verification Competition. Just click in the “Participate” tab for the registration.
Anonymous participants: participants are allowed to decide at the end of the competition whether they would like to include their names and affiliations in the competition report or not. Nevertheless, the organizers might include the results and some information about the systems but always completely anonymized.
Schedule
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Tentative dates:
· 15th November 2020: Beginning of the competition. Registration starts and development data release.
· 8th March 2021: Registration deadline.
· 15th March 2021: Final Evaluation data release (without ground-truth).
· 17th March 2021: End of the competition. Results Submission.
· 24th March 2021: Notification of the results. Ground-truth release.
· 25th March 2021: Selection and notification of the best systems to take part in a joint paper.
ORGANIZERS:
Ruben Tolosana – ruben.tolosana@uam.es
Ruben Vera-Rodriguez – ruben.vera@uam.es
Aythami Morales – aythami.morales@uam.es
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