Any interest in an application to spot verify well-known autographs/forgeries

[isaac2004]

Hello All,

I used to frequent this forum a lot, but life got in the way (married with 2 kids now, time flies). I stepped away from the hobby as well and hope for the day when I can pick it back up and finish some collections.

I am a software developer, and I had an interesting idea, what if there was a service online that you could provide a photo of an autograph and you would be told almost instantly with a level of certainty whether the autograph is real or not. I now there are some things online that give you an "eye test" but this instead of having a person look would use Machine Learning based on a proided sample of real and fakes and make an assessment of the image. This obviously is not foolproof as there is nuance to an autograph that this mechanism would not detect, but I believe a majority of "Hey is this real or fake?" posts would be handled, plus it is something that is just really cool.

I have a proof of concept for this working with Mantle autographs and I am pretty happy with the results, but it can be better. So if anyone wants to contribute to this venture, I could use samples. Do you have real autos around that you can provide photos of? Do you have photos of known fakes? It doesn't have to end with Mantle, so if you have samples for any major players, please let me know.

Also if you want to talk further, feel free to reach out.