Quantification of the shape of handwritten characters: A step to objective discrimination between writers based on the study of the capital character O

Forensic Science International

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-32

  Marquis, R ^a   Schmittbuhl, M ^b   Mazzella, W D ^a   Taroni, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Fourier descriptors; Handwriting; Shape analysis; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WRITING;

EID: 17144420783     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.06.028     Document Type: Article

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