A Perspective Analysis of Handwritten Signature Technology

• Published in: ACM computing surveys Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 1 - 39
• Main Authors: Diaz, Moises, Ferrer, Miguel A., Impedovo, Donato, Malik, Muhammad Imran, Pirlo, Giuseppe, Plamondon, Réjean
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 30.11.2019; Association for Computing Machinery
• Subjects: Access control; Applied computing; Authentication; Biometrics; Computer forensics; Computer science; Data structures design and analysis; Design and analysis of algorithms; Document analysis; Document capture; Document management and text processing; Document types; Domains; General and reference; Handwriting; Pattern matching; Security and privacy; Security services; Signature analysis; Signatures; Surveys and overviews; System forensics; Theory of computation; surveys; biometrics; automatic signature verification; Offline and online handwritten signature

Handwritten signatures are biometric traits at the center of debate in the scientific community. Over the last 40 years, the interest in signature studies has grown steadily, having as its main reference the application of automatic signature verification, as previously published reviews in 1989, 20...