Writer identification by means of loop and lead-in features
V.L. Blankers, Ralph Niels · 2007
The research presented in this paper was conducted as a Bachelor project [1]. Writer identification is an important issue in forensic investigations. In this paper, we propose a novel method for identifying a writer by means of features of loops and lead-in strokes of produced letters. Using a k-nearestneighbor classifier, we were able to yield a correct identification performance of 98 % on a database of 41 writers. These results are promising and have great potential for use in the forensic practice. 1