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Paper Fingerprinting using Deep Learning

Robust material fingerprints for document-fraud detection.

Jul 2021 Deep Learning

A generative-embedding pipeline that produces robust fingerprints of paper textures to detect document fraud.

  • Built an image-embedding pipeline for document-fraud detection using Beta-Variational Autoencoders.
  • Used Shearlet transforms, VAEs and generative networks with a specialised perceptual loss for robust fingerprint generation.
  • Generated a custom dataset of 55,000 paper-texture images for training.
  • Benchmarked Gabor filters & Local Binary Patterns for robustness using Euclidean and Bhattacharyya distances.