AdaBoost-based on-line signature verifier

Yasunori Hongo; Daigo Muramatsu; Takashi Matsumoto

doi:10.1117/12.603287

28 March 2005 AdaBoost-based on-line signature verifier

Yasunori Hongo, Daigo Muramatsu, Takashi Matsumoto

Proceedings Volume 5779, Biometric Technology for Human Identification II; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603287
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Authentication of individuals is rapidly becoming an important issue. The authors previously proposed a Pen-input online signature verification algorithm. The algorithm considers a writer’s signature as a trajectory of pen position, pen pressure, pen azimuth, and pen altitude that evolve over time, so that it is dynamic and biometric. Many algorithms have been proposed and reported to achieve accuracy for on-line signature verification, but setting the threshold value for these algorithms is a problem. In this paper, we introduce a user-generic model generated by AdaBoost, which resolves this problem. When user- specific models (one model for each user) are used for signature verification problems, we need to generate the models using only genuine signatures. Forged signatures are not available because imposters do not give forged signatures for training in advance. However, we can make use of another's forged signature in addition to the genuine signatures for learning by introducing a user generic model. And Adaboost is a well-known classification algorithm, making final decisions depending on the sign of the output value. Therefore, it is not necessary to set the threshold value. A preliminary experiment is performed on a database consisting of data from 50 individuals. This set consists of western-alphabet-based signatures provide by a European research group. In this experiment, our algorithm gives an FRR of 1.88% and an FAR of 1.60%. Since no fine-tuning was done, this preliminary result looks very promising.

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Yasunori Hongo, Daigo Muramatsu, and Takashi Matsumoto "AdaBoost-based on-line signature verifier", Proc. SPIE 5779, Biometric Technology for Human Identification II, (28 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603287

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