Online Signature Verification for Forgery Detection
Muhammad Rizwan, Farhan Aadil, Mehr Yahya Durrani, Rajermani Thinakaran · International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications · 2023
The increasing trend of using e-versions of document transmission and storage requires the electronic verification of sender/author. This research presents an efficient and robust online handwritten signature verification system targeting verification rates better than the available state-of-the-art systems in the presence of skilled forgeries. Fourier analysis is employed on the signatures to represent feature vectors in higher dimensional space followed by Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis to obtain compress representation while enhancing inter-class scatter between signature patterns. Signature modeling is performed using m-mediod-based modeling approach where m-mediods are put on to represent data distribution in each class. Connected component labeling is applied to binarized images of Urdu text to extract ligatures which are separated into primary ligatures and diacritics. Fast Euclidean Distance is used as dis(similarity). A total of 2414 signature samples including skilled forgeries are considered in our study. The evaluation of the proposed system on Japanese signature dataset provided by SigWiComp2013 realized promising results than the competitors.