An Enhanced Dynamic Signature Verification using the X and Y Histogram Features

Abstract

Dynamic signature verification by using histogram features is a well-known signature forgery detection technique due to its high performance. However, this technique is often limited to angular histograms derived from vectors containing two adjacent points. We propose additional new features from the X and Y histograms to overcome the limitation. Our experiments indicate that our technique produced Under Curve Area AUC values 0.80 to detect skilled forgery and 0.91 for random forgery. Our method performed best when the verification system uses 12 of the most dominant features. This setup produced AUC values of 0.80 to detect skilled forgery and 0.93 for random forgery. These results outperformed the original technique when the X and Y histogram features are not used that produced AUC values of 0.78 to detect skilled forgery and 0.90 for random forgery.