Offline signature verification and identification using distance statistics

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1339-1360

  Kalera, Meenakshi K ^a,b   Srihari, Sargur ^b   Xu, Aihua ^b  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes classifier; GSC features; K nearest neighbor; Offline; Skilled forgeries

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

BAYES CLASSIFIERS; GSC FEATURES; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; OFFLINE; SKILLED FORGERIES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 10444288694     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001404003630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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