Signature is arguably the most popular and widely accepted biometric hallmarks used in the Banking sector for verifying documents, bank checks, forms etc. That is why signature verification is such a critical task and a simple bug in the system can cause severe repercussions. There are two popular ways to do it – Online and Offline. In online process, signature needs to be captured on electronic writing pad and several other types of information like writing speed, pressure etc. are captured. In offline process signature is captured by scanner. While online process performs better than offline process, it comes with a cost due to special hardware requirements. Additionally there are many cases where offline process is the only option such as check transaction and document verification. Offline signature verification can be of two types - writer dependent and writer independent. a writer dependent system needs to be updated with every new signer and for a bank, where every day new consumers can open their account this incurs huge cost. That is why the writer independent scenario is preferable over writer dependent approaches where a generic model is built to classify the signatures as genuine or forged based on the learnt discrepancies between a genuine and a forged signature.

In case of standard image classification task, the input image is fed into a series of layers, and finally at the output we generate a probability distribution over all the classes. But it requires a large number of images. In offline signature verification scenario, we neither have enough signature for each signer and the total number signers is huge as well as dynamically changing. Thus, the cost of data collection and periodical retraining is too high. On the other hand, in a few shot image classification, we require only a few signatures for each signer, hence the name Few Shot.

The speaker will discuss the following:

• Introduction to Few Shot Learning
• The architecture of Siamese Network
• How to train Offline signature verification system using Siamese Networks on real life data
• Tools to build such model
• How to deploy such model on cloud
• How to serve such model in real time
• Pros and Cons of our approach

Learn what few shot learning is and how to build and deploy such models on the cloud to solve various classification tasks on image data with very limited amount of data.