With the modern world going on-line for all businesses, we need to transact with various business organizations all over the world using different modes of payment obtained through various Financial Institutions. We have considered the following bank transaction. A person X having an account in bank C issued a cheque for certain amount in favor of a person Y having an account in bank B. But, Y ...

Cheque Truncation System(CTS) is an automatic cheque clearance system implemented by RBI.CTS uses cheque image, instead of the physical cheque itself, for cheque clearance thus reducing the turn around time drastically. This approach holds back the physical movement of cheque from presenting bank to the drawee bank. In CTS, digital image of the cheque is protected using standard public key and ...

We propose the idea of a Quantum Cheque Scheme, a cryptographic protocol in which any legitimate client of a trusted bank can issue a cheque, that cannot be counterfeited or altered in anyway, and can be verified by a bank or any of its branches. We formally define a Quantum Cheque and present the first Unconditionally Secure Quantum Cheque Scheme and show it to be secure against any no-signali...

-Signature is the most important feature of a bank cheque. Basically signature verification is a scheme to verify a cheque for its authentication. The data base consist of several bank’s cheque. The present paper focuses on different steps including browsing a bank cheque, pre-processing, feature extraction, recognition. Preprocessing stage includes image resizing, noise elimination, thinning e...

The segmentation of bank cheque images is a fundamental phase of its automatic processing. In the segmentation phase, one of the most important steps is the background elimination, that has to respect the physical integrity of the rest of the cheque image information. This paper describes a simple and robust solution for the background elimination problem, using a process that involves two stag...

Amy was awarded the 2013 Connect trophy and a cheque for £3,000 for her project which investigated the primary culture of porcine intestinal epithelial cells, while Camilla received a cheque for £2,000 for her project which assessed the effect of turn direction on body lean angle in the horse in trot and canter. Alissa was awarded a prize of £1,000 for her study of grey squirrels in Scotland as...