A Survey on Offline Signature Recognition and Verification Schemes

Signature has been a distinguishing biometric feature through ages. They are extensively used as a means of personal verification; therefore an automatic verification system is needed. Even today thousands of financial and business transactions are being authorized via signatures. Signature verification finds its application in a large number of fields starting from online banking, passport verification systems to even authenticating candidates in public examinations from their signatures. This paper represents a brief survey on various off-line signature recognition & verification schemes.