Recovering western on-line signatures from image-based specimens

Abstract

This article propose a complete framework to recover the dynamic properties (i.e. velocity and pressure) of an on-line Western signature from an image-based signature. The framework is based on classical approaches to recover the writing order of the strokes and a novel process to recover the kinematic properties from thinned trajectories. In order to evaluate the quality of the recovered signatures and the impact of each stage of our framework, the performance of a signature verification system on obtained signatures in each stage are compared to the performance with real signatures. As a proof of concepts, in this study we use the first 50 users of BiosecurID signature database since they contain both the on-line and off-line version of Western signatures.