Features selection for offline handwritten signature verification: state of the art

• Main Authors: Ebrahim, Anwar Yahya, Kolivand, Hoshang, Rehman, Amjad, Mohd. Rahim, Mohd. Shafry, Saba, Tanzila
• Format: Article
• Published: Inderscience Publishers 2018
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84622/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJCVR.2018.095590

This research comes out with an in-depth review of widely used techniques to handwritten signature verification based, feature selection techniques. The focus of this research is to explore best features selection criteria for signature verification to avoid forgery. This paper further present pros and cons of local and global features selection techniques, reported in the state of art. Experiments are conducted on benchmark databases for signature verification systems (GPDS). Results are tested using two standard protocols; GPDS and the program for rate estimation and feature selection. The current precision of the signature verification techniques reported in state of art are compared on benchmark database and possible solutions are suggested to improve the accuracy. As the equal error rate is an important factor for evaluating the signature verification's accuracy, the results show that the feature selection methods have successfully contributed toward efficient signature verification.