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Online signature verification using I-vector representation

Zeinali, H ; Sharif University of Technology | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2017.0059
  3. Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2018
  4. Abstract:
  5. Signature verification (SV) is one of the common methods for identity verification in banking, where for security reasons, it is very important to have an accurate method for automatic SV (ASV). ASV is usually addressed by comparing the test signature with the enrolment signature(s) signed by the individual whose identity is claimed in two manners: online and offline. In this study, a new method based on the i-vector is proposed for online SV. In the proposed method, a fixed-length vector, called i-vector, is extracted from each signature and then this vector is used for template making. Several techniques such as nuisance attribute projection (NAP) and within-class covariance normalisation (WCCN) are also investigated in order to reduce the intra-class variation in the i-vector space. In the scoring and decision making stage, they also propose to apply a 2-class support vector machine method. Experimental results show the proposed method could achieve 8.75% equal error rate (EER) on SigWiComp2013 database in the best case. On SVC2004 database, it also achieved 5% EER that means 11% relative improvement compared with the best reported result. In addition to its considerable accuracy gain, it has shown significant improvement in the computational cost over conventional dynamic time warping method. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2017
  6. Keywords:
  7. Decision making ; Electronic document identification systems ; Vectors ; Computational costs ; Dynamic time warping ; Identity verification ; Intra-class variation ; On-line signature verification ; Signature verification ; Support vector machine method ; Within-class covariance ; Vector spaces
  8. Source: IET Biometrics ; Volume 7, Issue 5 , 2018 , Pages 405-414 ; 20474938 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-bmt.2017.0059