Text-independent writer identification and verification using textural and allographic features

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 701-717

  Bulacu, Maruis ^a   Schomaker, Lambert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral biometrics; Grapheme emission probability distribution; Handwriting analysis; Joint directional probability distributions; Writer identification and verification

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; PATTERN MATCHING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TEXTURES;

BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS; GRAPHEME-EMISSION PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; HANDWRITING ANALYSIS; JOINT DIRECTIONAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WRITER IDENTIFICATION;

BIOMETRICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; HANDWRITING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMETRY; HANDWRITING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33947518115     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1009     Document Type: Article

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