ECE 533 Project
Handwritten Signature Verification

Ashish Dhawan 
Aditi R Ganesan 

Abstract:

Handwritten signature of an individual is a biometric attribute.  Among
the various biometric attributes, which are used for security purposes,
handwritten signature is the most commonly used by general public. 
Signature verification is a difficult pattern recognition problem as the
signature of an individual is not unique. 

In this project we propose to determine the authenticity of an
individual by comparing an input signature with a reference set. 
Various spatial and timing characteristics have to be taken into account
to authenticate a signature.  Similarity is computed using string
matching and the similarity value is compared to a threshold. 

References:

[1] A.K.  Jain, F.D.  Griess, and S.D.  Connell.  On-line signature
verification.  Pattern Recognition, 35(12):2963 2972, December 2002. 

[2] R. Plamondon, G. Lorette. Automatic Signature Verification
and Writer Identification - The State of the Art, Pattern
Recognition 22 (2) (1989) 107-131.