State of the art in off-line signature verification

State of the art in off-line signature verification

Batista, Luana and Rivard, Dominique and Sabourin, Robert and Granger, Eric and Maupin, Patrick

Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances 2008

Abstract : Automatic signature verification is a biometric method that can be applied in all situations where handwritten signatures are used, such as cashing a check, signing a credit card, authenticating a document, and others. Over the last two decades, several innovative approaches for off-line signature verification have been introduced in literature. Therefore, this chapter presents a survey of the most important techniques used for feature extraction and verification in this field. The chapter also presents strategies used to face the problem of a limited amount of data, as well as important challenges and research directions. © 2008, IGI Global.