Signature Verification by Neural Networks with Selective Attention

  • Authors:
  • Xu-Hong Xiao;Graham Leedham

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligent Systems Laboratory, School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Blk N4, #2a-36, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. xxuhong@dso.org.sg;Intelligent Systems Laboratory, School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Blk N4, #2a-36, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. asgleedham@ntu.edu.sg

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Automatic verification of handwritten signatures hasnumerous applications in checking the authenticity and validityof cheques and documents. Intra-class differences betweengenuine signatures and difficulty in collecting representativeforgeries for comparison have been the main obstacles for itspractical implementation. In this paper, a new standpoint ofpaying selective attention to the stable parts of genuinesignatures is proposed to overcome the obstacles, and an experimental system based on it is given. To realize theselective attention, two strategies are addressed. One is totrain the classifier with artificial forgeries generated byremoving stable components from genuine signatures, so that theclassifier can detect these stable components when verifyingsignatures. The other is to force the neural network classifierto pay special attention to local stable parts of signatures by weighting their corresponding node responses through a feedbackmechanism. The experimental results demonstrate the potential ofthe proposed approach to compensate for the lack ofrepresentative forgeries for system training, and in improvingthe system‘s ability to identify skilled forgeries.