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# AFHA 2011
First International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis

### Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis: A Satellite Workshop of ICDAR-2011

### Beijing, China, September 17-18, 2011.

Edited by

### Marcus Liwicki (1)
Michael Blumenstein (2)
Bryan Found (3)
Elisa van den Heuvel (4)
Charles Berger (4)
Reinoud Stoel (4)

(1) German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany
(2) Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
(3) Latrobe University Bundoora Campus, Victoria, Australia
(4) Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands

## Table of Contents

- Preface

1. Non-English and Non-Latin Signature Verification Systems A Survey 1-5
   Srikanta Pal, Michael Blumenstein, Umapada Pal
2. The Effect of Training Data Selection and Sampling Time Intervals on Signature Verification 6-10
   János Csirik, Zoltán Gingl, Erika Griechisch
3. Classification of Features into Strong and Weak Features for an Intelligent Online Signature Verification System 11-15
   Saad Tariq, Saqib Sarwar, Waqar Hussain
4. Forensic vs. Computing writing features as seen by Rex, the intuitive document retriever 16-20
   Vlad Atanasiu
5. Automated Off-Line Writer Verification Using Short Sentences and Grid Features 21-25
   Konstantinos Tselios, Elias Zois, Athanasios Nassiopoulos, Sotiris Karabetsos, George Economou
6. Evaluation of Local and Global Features for Offline Signature Verification 26-30
   Muhammad Imran Malik, Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Dengel
7. Static Signature Verification by Optical Flow Analysis 31-35
   Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo
8. A Co-training based Framework for Writer Identification in Offline Handwriting 36-40
   Utkarsh Porwal, Venu Govindaraju

The whole proceedings can also be downloaded as a single file (pdf).

25-Aug-2011: submitted by Muhammad Imran Malik, Marcus Liwicki
25-Aug-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org
26-Aug-2011: corrected authors of paper 6