Forensic Signature Verification Competition 4NSigComp2010 - Detection of Simulated and Disguised Signatures

This competition scenario aims at a performance comparison of several automated systems for the task of signature verification. The systems have to rate the probability of authorship and non-authorship of signatures. In particular they have to determine whether questioned signatures are simulated disguised or the normal signature of the reference writer. Furthermore, the results will be compared to forensic handwriting examiners (FHEs) opinions on the same tasks. As such, to the best of the authors´ knowledge, this scenario will be the first attempt in literature to relate system performances to the performance of FHEs who gave their opinion on exactly the the same signatures.