Off-line signature verification using directional PDF and neural networks

The first stage of a complete automatic handwritten signature verification system (AHSVS) is described in this paper. Since only random forgeries are taken into account in this first stage of decision, the directional probability density function (PDF) which is related to the overall shape of the handwritten signature has been taken into account as feature vector. Experimental results show that using both directional PDFs and the completely connected feedforward neural network classifier are valuable to build the first stage of a complete AHSVS.>