An intelligent online signature verification system

The study of human signatures has a long history, but online signature verification is still an active topic in the field of biometrics. This chapter starts with a detailed survey of recent research progress and commercial products, then proposes a typical online dynamic signature verification system based on time-dependent elastic curve matching. Rather than using special dynamic features such as pen pressure and incline, this system uses the 1D curves of signatures which can be captured using a normal tablet. Static and dynamic features can be well extracted from these two curves about x- and y-coordinates and applied to verification. To improve the performance, we introduce into the system different local weight, personal threshold and auto-update algorithms for reference samples. Finally, we present applications of online signature verification for PDAs and in Internet E-commerce.Department of Computin