A Smoothness Index Based Approach for Off-Line Signature Verification

  • Authors:
  • B. Fang;Y. Y. Wang;C. H. Leung;P. C. K. Kwok;K. W. Tse;Y. Y. Tang;Y. K. Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '99 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This work proposes a method to tackle the problem of detecting skilled forgeries in off-line signature verification. Inspired by the approach adopted by the expert examiner, it is based on a smoothness criterion.From a collection of genuine and skilled forgery signatures, it is observed that although skilled forgery signatures are very similar to genuine ones on a global scale, they are generally less smooth and natural on a detailed scale than the genuine ones, especially for those skilled forgery signatures which consist of cursive graphic patterns. A smoothness index is derived from such signatures. This is combined with other global shape features and used for verification. Satisfactory results are obtained.