Off-Line Signature Verification of Bank Cheque Having Different Background Colors

Most of the banks issue the chequebooks to their customers having different background colors where as the original specimen signature is always taken on the white paper at the time of the opening of the account. When these signatures are verified digitally the results are not accurate. In this paper, we have proposed a mechanism that automates the offline signature verification for bank cheques even with different background colors. Work present in this paper is focused, to examine whether an input signature of colored bank cheque is a genuine signature or a forged. This task is performed by comparing the collected signature samples (white background) with input signatures (colored background). The signature verification of colored cheques (SVCC) system of verifying the signatures having different background colors in spite of white paper specimens through variation of color intensity is discussed and presented.

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