Off-line Signature Verification Based on Gray Level Information Using Wavelet Transform and Texture Features

A method for Off-line Handwritten Signature Verification is described. It works at the global and local image level, measuring the stroke gray-level variations by means of wavelet analysys and statistical texture features. This method begins with a proposed background removal. Then Wavelet Analysis allows to estimate and alleviate the global influence of ink-type, and finally, properties of the Co-occurrence Matrix are used as features representing individual characteristics at local level. Genuine samples have been used for train an SVM model, random and skilled forgeries have been used for testing it. Experiments were conducted on three differente databases (MCYT75, GPDS100, and GPDS750). Results are reasonable according to the state of the art and approaches that use the same public available database (MCYT75) and prove the feasibility of the proposed methodology.

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