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Offline signature verification system: a novel technique of fusion of GLCM and geometric features using SVM

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In the area of digital biometric systems, the handwritten signature plays a key role in the authentication of a person based on their original samples. In offline signature verification (OSV), several problems exist that are challenging for verification of authentic or forgery signature by the digital system. Correct signature verification improves the security of people, systems, and services. It is applied to uniquely identify an individual based on the motion of pen as up and down, signature speed, and shape of a loop. In this work, the multi-level features fusion and optimal features selection based automatic technique is proposed for OSV. For this purpose, twenty-two Gray Level Co-occurrences Matrix (GLCM) and eight geometric features are calculated from pre-processing signature samples. These features are fused by a new parallel approach which is based on a high-priority index feature (HPFI). A skewness-kurtosis based features selection approach is also proposed name skewness-kurtosis controlled PCA (SKcPCA) and selects the optimal features for final classification into forged and genuine signatures. MCYT, GPDS synthetic, and CEDAR datasets are utilized for validation of the proposed system and show enhancement in terms of Far and FRR as compared to existing methods.

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  1. Department of CS, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah campus, Pakistan

    Faiza Eba Batool & Muhammad Sharif

  2. Department of Computer Science, HITEC University, Museum Road, Taxila, Pakistan

    Muhammad Attique & Muhammad Nazir

  3. Department of Robotics, SMME Nust, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Kashif Javed

  4. Department of Software Engineering, Foundation University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi

  5. Department of Computer Engineering, UET Taxila, Taxila, Pakistan

    Zeshan Iqbal

  6. SEECS, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Naveed Riaz

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Batool, F.E., Attique, M., Sharif, M. et al. Offline signature verification system: a novel technique of fusion of GLCM and geometric features using SVM. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 14959–14978 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-08851-4

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