Abstract

Handwritten signature is one of the most widely used biometric traits for authentication of person as well as document. In this paper we discuss issues regarding off-line signature recognitions. We review existing techniques, their performance and method for feature extraction. We discuss a system designed using cluster based global features which is a multi algorithmic offline signature recognition system.

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