Development of an Autonomous Reliable High Quality Signature Verification Device

The automatic verification of handwritten signatures (AVHS) is the task of verifying the identity of a person based on a number of handwritten signatures known to belong to the claimed identity and a handwritten signature claimed to belong to the given person. The problem is difficult because handwritten signatures may vary by time, psychological state of the writing person or the pen, just to mention a few of the many factors influencing the signature. Yet AVHS has many important applications both in the private and the public sectors. Banking applications include verification during money transfer, shopping (at POS terminals), or at the time of cashing checks. Other applications include criminalistic applications, or the verification of signatures on contracts or on other legal documents.