Verifying the genuineness of official documents, such as bank checks, certificates, contract forms, bonds, etc., remains a challenging task when it comes to accuracy and robustness. Here, the genuineness is related to the degree of match of the signature contained in the documents relating to the original signatures of the authorized person. Signatures of authorized persons are considered known in advance.
In this paper, a novel feature set is introduced based on quasi-straightness of boundary pixel runs for signature verification. We extract the quasi-straight line segments using elementary combinations of the directional codes from the signature boundary pixels and subsequently we obtain the feature set from various quasi-straight line classes. The quasi-straight line segments provide a blending of straightness and small curvatures resulting in a robust feature set for the verification of signatures. We have used Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification and have shown results on standard signature datasets like CEDAR (Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition) and GPDS-100 (Grupo de Procesado Digital de la Senal).
The results establish how the proposed method outperforms the existing state of the art.
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