Offline signature recognition using pretrained convolution neural network model

Abstract

Offline Signature recognition plays an important role in Forensic issues. In this paper, we explore Signature Identification and Verification using features extracted from pretrained Convolution Neural Network model (Alex Net). All the experiments are performed on signatures from three dataset (SigComp2011) (Dutch, Chinese), SigWiComp2013 (Japanese) and SigWIcomp2015 (Italian). The result shows that features extracted from pretrained Deep Convolution neural network and SVM as classifier show better results than that of Decision Tree. The accuracy of more than 96% for Japanese, Italian, Dutch and Chinese Signatures is obtained with Deep Convolution neural network and SVM as classifier.