Abstract
Abstract
Problem definition:
Extract and recognize signature from a scanned image
Input to the system is scanned image which contain signature and as the output
the system will identify the signature if match exist.
This Seminer tries to implement a signature recognition system, which will extract
signature from a scanned image and hence tries to identify the person if a match exist in the
database. Hampered by the large amount of variation between handwritten samples, researchers
have had to find techniques that will improve the ability of computers to represent and recognize
handwritten samples. One approach that has shown great impact is the use of artificial neural
network. In this approach, an artificial neural network is trained to identify similarities and
patters among different samples. This seminer will explore the topic of automated signature
recognition using artificial neural network.
In this paper we present an off-line signature verification and recognition system using
the global, directional and grid fea-tures of signatures. Support Vector Machine (SVM) was used
to verify and classify the signatures and a classification ratio of 0.95 was obtained. As the
recognition of signatures repre-sents a multiclass problem SVM's one-against-all method was
used. We also compare our methods performance with Artifical Neural Network’s (ANN)
backpropagation method