Towards robust writer verification by correcting unnatural slant

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 449-457

  Brink, A A ^a   Niels, R M J ^b   Van Batenburg, R A ^a   Van Den Heuvel, C E ^c   Schomaker, L R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS FORENSIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disguise; Handwriting biometrics; Slant; Statistical pattern recognition; Writer verification

Indexed keywords

DISGUISE; HANDWRITING BIOMETRICS; SLANT; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; WRITER VERIFICATION;

BIOMETRICS; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649319002     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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