Retail applications of signature verification

Thomas G. Zimmerman; Gregory F. Russell; Andre Heilper; Barton A. Smith; Jianying Hu; Dmitry Markman; Jon E. Graham; Clemens Drews

doi:10.1117/12.542747

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25 August 2004 Retail applications of signature verification

Thomas G. Zimmerman, Gregory F. Russell, Andre Heilper, Barton A. Smith, Jianying Hu, Dmitry Markman, Jon E. Graham, Clemens Drews

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Proceedings Volume 5404, Biometric Technology for Human Identification; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542747
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

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The dramatic rise in identity theft, the ever pressing need to provide convenience in checkout services to attract and retain loyal customers, and the growing use of multi-function signature captures devices in the retail sector provides favorable conditions for the deployment of dynamic signature verification (DSV) in retail settings. We report on the development of a DSV system to meet the needs of the retail sector. We currently have a database of approximately 10,000 signatures collected from 600 subjects and forgers. Previous work at IBM on DSV has been merged and extended to achieve robust performance on pen position data available from commercial point of sale hardware, achieving equal error rates on skilled forgeries and authentic signatures of 1.5% to 4%.

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Thomas G. Zimmerman, Gregory F. Russell, Andre Heilper, Barton A. Smith, Jianying Hu, Dmitry Markman, Jon E. Graham, and Clemens Drews "Retail applications of signature verification", Proc. SPIE 5404, Biometric Technology for Human Identification, (25 August 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542747

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