Signature recognition

About: Signature recognition is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2138 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37605 citations.

Integrating iris and signature traits for personal authentication using user-specific weighting.

Abstract: Biometric systems based on uni-modal traits are characterized by noisy sensor data, restricted degrees of freedom, non-universality and are susceptible to spoof attacks. Multi-modal biometric systems seek to alleviate some of these drawbacks by providing multiple evidences of the same identity. In this paper, a user-score-based weighting technique for integrating the iris and signature traits is presented. This user-specific weighting technique has proved to be an efficient and effective fusion scheme which increases the authentication accuracy rate of multi-modal biometric systems. The weights are used to indicate the importance of matching scores output by each biometrics trait. The experimental results show that our biometric system based on the integration of iris and signature traits achieve a false rejection rate (FRR) of 0.08% and a false acceptance rate (FAR) of 0.01%.

Real-time context-based gesture recognition using HMM and automaton

Abstract: HMMs are often used for gesture recognition because of the robustness. However, the computational cost and accuracy of recognition are important for real applications such as gesture recognition, speech recognition or virtual reality. In this paper, we propose methods for performance improvement of gesture recognition using HMMs. For the computational cost, we use KL transform to compress the input information and propose a recursive calculation method for the HMMs' probabilities. For the accuracy of recognition, we use an automaton layered up on HMMs to deal with context information of gestures. We also show experimental results to make the efficiency of our methods clear.

A business form recognition system

Abstract: A pattern recognition system is described that classifies digitized images of business forms according to a predefined set of templates. The process involves a training phase, where images of the template forms are scanned, analyzed and stored in a data dictionary; and a recognition phase, during which scanned form images are compared to templates in a dictionary to determine their class membership. The system has been tested under a variety of conditions and its performance has been proven to be satisfactory. >

Model length adaptation of an HMM based cursive word recognition system

Abstract: On the basis of a well accepted, HMM-based cursive script recognition system, an algorithm which automatically adapts the length of the models representing the letter writing variants is proposed. An average improvement in recognition performance of about 2.72 percent could be obtained. Two initialization methods for the algorithm have been tested, which show quite different behaviors; both prove to be useful in different application areas. To get a deeper insight into the functioning of the algorithm a method for the visualization of letter HMMs is developed. It shows the plausibility of most results, but also the limitations of the proposed method. However, these are mostly due to given restrictions of the training and recognition method of the underlying system.

Towards fast 3D ear recognition for real-life biometric applications

Abstract: Three-dimensional data are increasingly being used for biometric purposes as they offer resilience to problems common in two-dimensional data. They have been successfully applied to face recognition and more recently to ear recognition. However, real-life biometric applications require algorithms that are both robust and efficient so that they scale well with the size of the databases. A novel ear recognition method is presented that uses a generic annotated ear model to register and fit each ear dataset. Then a compact biometric signature is extracted that retains 3D information. The proposed method is evaluated using the largest publicly available 3D ear database appended with our own database, resulting in a database containing data from multiple 3D sensor types. Using this database it is shown that the proposed method is not only robust, accurate and sensor invariant but also extremely efficient, thus making it suitable for real-life biometric applications.