Offline Handwritten Signature Recognition Based on SIFT and SURF Features Using SVMs

Abstract

Biometric recognition for human identification plays a key role in the rapid development of computer vision and pattern recognition research areas. The biometrics, refers to the automatic identification of a person based behavioral characteristics, physiological properties or traits. Signature recognition is one such human identification method and can be performed either in offline or online mode. This paper proposed an offline handwritten signature recognition which is based on image processing technique, scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) and speeded-up robust features (SURF) features and support vector machines (SVMs). The handwritten signature images were then recognized through the proposed method that involves identification of regions of interest and representation of those regions as SIFT or SURF, construction of codebooks and the multi-class classification of the feature histograms using support vector machines (SVMs). Experiments have been carried out with our dataset of 1600 samples and a recognition rate in excess of 95% was obtained over the ten-fold cross validations.