Improved class statistics estimation for sparse data problems in offline signature verification

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 276-286

  Fang, Bin ^a,b   Tang, Yuan Yan ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Elastic matching; Limited training data; Matrix regularization; Offline system; Signature verification

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATTERN MATCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELASTIC MATCHING; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; OFFLINE SYSTEMS; SIGNATURE VERIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 23944461781     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.848155     Document Type: Article

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