Survey on Author Identification Using Signature Verification

Abstract

Signature is generally used for identity verification of a person. It is considered as a symbol for identification of social, business and business functions that the term signature verification is of utmost importance as it may be victimized and might result in huge losses. Signature could be a behavioral biometric attribute that includes neuromotor characteristics of an individual in addition as socio-cultural influence. In this paper, survey is done for author identification using signature verification. Initially pre-processing of signature image is done. Further features are extracted based on the pre-processed data. Algorithm is applied on the extracted features and accuracy of signature is determined. Thus, signature is identified as genuine or forged and author is identified based on the genuineness of signature.