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VerSig: a new approach for online signature verification

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This paper introduces, VerSig, a new proposed scheme for online signature verification. The proposed scheme is based on creation of a signature envelope by employing dynamic time warping method. This envelope provides the basis for decision of forged and authentic signatures. The scheme only uses basic features such as X, Y coordinates of the signature. A well known and standardized Japanese handwritten dataset (provided for ICDAR 2013 signature verification competition) is used to evaluate the performance of proposed method. Proposed method is compared with state of art methods and observed to offer significant improvements in terms of overall accuracy of prediction.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Attock, Pakistan

    Mehr Yahya Durrani & Salabat Khan

  2. Department of Computer Science, Iqra National University, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Mehr Yahya Durrani

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shehzad Khalid

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Durrani, M.Y., Khan, S. & Khalid, S. VerSig: a new approach for online signature verification. Cluster Comput 22 (Suppl 3), 7229–7239 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-017-1129-4

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