Leveraging Expert Models for Training Deep Neural Networks in Scarce Data Domains: Application to Offline Handwritten Signature Verification
This paper introduces a novel approach to leverage the knowledge of existing expert models for training new Convolutional Neural Networks, on domains where task-specific data are limited or unavailable. The presented scheme is applied in offline handwritten signature verification (OffSV) which, akin...
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Main Authors | , , , |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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02.08.2023
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Summary: | This paper introduces a novel approach to leverage the knowledge of existing
expert models for training new Convolutional Neural Networks, on domains where
task-specific data are limited or unavailable. The presented scheme is applied
in offline handwritten signature verification (OffSV) which, akin to other
biometric applications, suffers from inherent data limitations due to
regulatory restrictions. The proposed Student-Teacher (S-T) configuration
utilizes feature-based knowledge distillation (FKD), combining graph-based
similarity for local activations with global similarity measures to supervise
student's training, using only handwritten text data. Remarkably, the models
trained using this technique exhibit comparable, if not superior, performance
to the teacher model across three popular signature datasets. More importantly,
these results are attained without employing any signatures during the feature
extraction training process. This study demonstrates the efficacy of leveraging
existing expert models to overcome data scarcity challenges in OffSV and
potentially other related domains. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2308.01136 |