Off-line signature verification by local granulometric size distributions

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 976-988

  Sabourin, Robert ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Mathematical morphology; Off line signature verification; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

GRANULOMETRIC SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; OFF LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD CLASSIFIER;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031237426     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.615447     Document Type: Article

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