Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication

The authentication of writers through handwritten text stands as a biometric technique with considerable practical importance in the field of document forensics and literary history. The verification process involves a meticulous examination of the questioned handwriting in comparison to the genuine...

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Main Authors: Parvaneh Afzali, Abdoreza Rezapour, Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi
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Language:English
Published: Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education, 2024-03-01
Series:International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.riejournal.com/article_190092_a889d66d8ea4df1fb1b5feb2e3b95e6c.pdf
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description The authentication of writers through handwritten text stands as a biometric technique with considerable practical importance in the field of document forensics and literary history. The verification process involves a meticulous examination of the questioned handwriting in comparison to the genuine handwriting of a known writer, aiming to determine whether a shared authorship exists. In real-world scenarios, writer verification based on the handwritten text presents more challenges compared to signatures. Signatures typically consist of fixed designs chosen by signers, whereas textual content can vary and encompass a diverse set of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. Moreover, verifying a writer based on limited handwritten texts, such as a single word, is recognized as one of authentication's open and challenging aspects. In this paper, we propose a Customized Siamese Convolutional Neural Network (CSCNN) for offline writer verification based on handwritten words. Additionally, a combined loss function is employed to achieve more accurate discrimination between the handwriting styles of different writers. The designed model is trained with pairs of images, each comprising one authentic and one questioned handwritten word. The effectiveness of the proposed model is substantiated through experimental results obtained from two well-known datasets in both English and Arabic, IAM and IFN/ENIT. These results underscore the efficiency and performance of our model across diverse linguistic contexts.
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spelling doaj-art-44afa07d16fe4c66a049e97401c61e632025-01-30T15:10:09ZengAyandegan Institute of Higher Education,International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering2783-13372717-29372024-03-011318810310.22105/riej.2024.432510.1412190092Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authenticationParvaneh Afzali0Abdoreza Rezapour1Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi2Department of Computer Engineering, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.Department of Computer Engineering, Astaneh Ashrafieh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Astaneh Ashrafieh, Iran.Department of Electrical Engineering, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.The authentication of writers through handwritten text stands as a biometric technique with considerable practical importance in the field of document forensics and literary history. The verification process involves a meticulous examination of the questioned handwriting in comparison to the genuine handwriting of a known writer, aiming to determine whether a shared authorship exists. In real-world scenarios, writer verification based on the handwritten text presents more challenges compared to signatures. Signatures typically consist of fixed designs chosen by signers, whereas textual content can vary and encompass a diverse set of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. Moreover, verifying a writer based on limited handwritten texts, such as a single word, is recognized as one of authentication's open and challenging aspects. In this paper, we propose a Customized Siamese Convolutional Neural Network (CSCNN) for offline writer verification based on handwritten words. Additionally, a combined loss function is employed to achieve more accurate discrimination between the handwriting styles of different writers. The designed model is trained with pairs of images, each comprising one authentic and one questioned handwritten word. The effectiveness of the proposed model is substantiated through experimental results obtained from two well-known datasets in both English and Arabic, IAM and IFN/ENIT. These results underscore the efficiency and performance of our model across diverse linguistic contexts.https://www.riejournal.com/article_190092_a889d66d8ea4df1fb1b5feb2e3b95e6c.pdfwriter verificationsiamese neural networkfeature learningcombined loss function
spellingShingle Parvaneh Afzali
Abdoreza Rezapour
Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi
Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering
writer verification
siamese neural network
feature learning
combined loss function
title Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
title_full Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
title_fullStr Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
title_full_unstemmed Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
title_short Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
title_sort leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication
topic writer verification
siamese neural network
feature learning
combined loss function
url https://www.riejournal.com/article_190092_a889d66d8ea4df1fb1b5feb2e3b95e6c.pdf
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