Abstract
As a behavioral biometric trait, an online signature is extensively used to verify a person’s identity in many applications. In this paper, we present a method using shape contexts and function features as well as a two-stage strategy for accurate online signature verification. Specifically, in the first stage, features of shape contexts are extracted from the input and classification is made based on distance metric. Only the inputs passing by the first stage are represented by a set of function features and verified. To improve the matching accuracy and efficiency, we propose shape context-dynamic time warping (SC-DTW) to compare the test signature with the enrolled reference ones based on the extracted function features. Then, classification based on interval-valued symbolic representation is employed to decide if the test signature is a genuine one. The proposed method is evaluated on SVC2004 Task 2 achieving an Equal Error Rate of 2.39% which is competitive to the state-of-the-art approaches. The experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Highlights
Biometric verification technology has aroused a lot of interest due to its reliability, effectiveness, and convenience in verifying personal identity [1]
The experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method
An interval-valued symbolic representation-based classifier is proposed to decide if the test signature is a genuine one
Summary
Biometric verification technology has aroused a lot of interest due to its reliability, effectiveness, and convenience in verifying personal identity [1]. Online signature verification methods can be categorized based on the feature extraction process and matching strategy [7]. The loss brought by accepting forgeries is higher than that by rejecting genuine signatures, which means accepting a signature as genuine should be stricter Considering these factors, we propose a two-stage method using shape contexts and function features for accurate online signature verification. To improve the matching accuracy and efficiency, we employ a shape context-dynamic time warping (SC-DTW) to compare the test signature with the enrolled reference ones based on the extracted function features. Based on the fact of unbalanced occurrence probability of skilled signature forgeries and random ones, a fast and accurate two-stage verification method is proposed.
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