Invariant behavioural based discrimination for individual representation

Writer identification based on cursive words is one of the extensive behavioural biometric that has involved many researchers to work in. Recently, its main idea is in forensic investigation and biometric analysis as such the handwriting style can be used as individual behavioural adaptation for authenticating an author. In this study, a novel approach of presenting cursive features of authors is presented. The invariants-based discriminability of the features is proposed by discretizing the moment features of each writer using biometric invariant discretization cutting point (BIDCP). BIDCP is introduced for features perseverance to obtain better individual representations and discriminations. Our experiments have revealed that by using the proposed method, the authorship identification based on cursive words is significantly increased with an average identification rate of 99.80%

Selecting Significant Features for Authorship Invarianceness in Writer Identification

Handwriting is individualistic. The uniqueness of shape and style of handwriting can be used to identify the significant features in authenticating the author of writing. Acquiring these significant features leads to an important research in Writer Identification domain where to find the unique features of individual which also known as Individuality of Handwriting. It relates to invarianceness of authorship where invarianceness between features for intraclass (same writer) is lower than inter-class (different writer). This paper discusses and reports the exploration of significant features for invarianceness of authorship from global shape features by using feature selection technique. The promising results show that the proposed method is worth to receive further exploration in identifying the handwritten authorship

Computationally Inexpensive Sequential Forward Floating Selection for Acquiring Significant Features for Authorship Invarianceness in Writer Identification

Handwriting is individualistic. The uniqueness of shape and style of handwriting can be used to identify the significant features in authenticating the author of writing. Acquiring these significant features leads to an important research in Writer Identification domain where to find the unique features of individual which also known as Individuality of Handwriting. This paper proposes an improved Sequential Forward Floating Selection method besides the exploration of significant features for invarianceness of authorship from global shape features by using various wrapper feature selection methods. The promising results show that the proposed method is worth to receive further exploration in identifying the handwritten authorship

DISCRETIZATION OF INTEGRATED MOMENT INVARIANTS FOR WRITER IDENTIFICATION

Conservative regular moments have been proven to exhibit some shortcomings in the original formulations of moment functions in terms of scaling factor. Hence, an incorporated scaling factor of geometric functions into United Moment Invariant function is proposed for mining the feature of unconstrained words. Subsequently, the discrete proposed features undertake discretization procedure prior to classification for better feature representation and splendid classification accuracy. Collectively, discrete values are finite intervals in a continuous spectrum of values and well known to play important roles in data mining and knowledge discovery. Many induction algorithms found in the literature requires that training data contains only discrete features and some works better on discretized data; in particular rule based approaches like rough sets. Hence, in this study, an integrated scaling formulation of Aspect Scaling Invariant is presented in Writer Identification to hunt for the individuality perseverance. Successive exploration is executed to investigate for the suitability of discretization techniques in probing the issues of writer authorship. Mathematical proving and results of computer simulations are embraced to attest the feasibility of the proposed technique in Writer Identification. The results disclose that the proposed discretized invariants reveal 99% accuracy of classification by using 3520 training data and 880 testing data

Performance Comparison of Radial Basis Function Networks and Probabilistic Neural Networks for Telugu Character Recognition

The research on recognition of hand written scanned images of documents has witnessed several problems, some of which include recognition of almost similar characters. Therefore it received attention from the fields of image processing and pattern recognition. The system of pattern recognition comprises a two step process. The first stage is the feature extraction and the second stage is the classification. In this paper, the authors propose two classification methods, both of which are based on artificial neural networks as a means to recognize hand written characters of Telugu, a language spoken by more than 100 million people of south India(Negi et al. ,2001). In this model, the authors used Radial Basis Function (RBF) networks and Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) for classification. These classifiers were further evaluated using performance metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV) and F measure. This paper is a comparison of results obtained with both the methods. The values of F measure are quite satisfactory and this is a good indication of the suitability of the methods for classification of characters. The values of F-Measure for both the methods approach the value of 1, which is a good indication and out of the two, RBF is a better method than PNN

Information Preserving Processing of Noisy Handwritten Document Images

Many pre-processing techniques that normalize artifacts and clean noise induce anomalies due to discretization of the document image. Important information that could be used at later stages may be lost. A proposed composite-model framework takes into account pre-printed information, user-added data, and digitization characteristics. Its benefits are demonstrated by experiments with statistically significant results. Separating pre-printed ruling lines from user-added handwriting shows how ruling lines impact people\u27s handwriting and how they can be exploited for identifying writers. Ruling line detection based on multi-line linear regression reduces the mean error of counting them from 0.10 to 0.03, 6.70 to 0.06, and 0.13 to 0.02, com- pared to an HMM-based approach on three standard test datasets, thereby reducing human correction time by 50%, 83%, and 72% on average. On 61 page images from 16 rule-form templates, the precision and recall of form cell recognition are increased by 2.7% and 3.7%, compared to a cross-matrix approach. Compensating for and exploiting ruling lines during feature extraction rather than pre-processing raises the writer identification accuracy from 61.2% to 67.7% on a 61-writer noisy Arabic dataset. Similarly, counteracting page-wise skew by subtracting it or transforming contours in a continuous coordinate system during feature extraction improves the writer identification accuracy. An implementation study of contour-hinge features reveals that utilizing the full probabilistic probability distribution function matrix improves the writer identification accuracy from 74.9% to 79.5%

Text-independent chinese writer identification using hybrid SLT-LBP feature

This study proposes a new hybrid method using texture features of input handwriting document image as global to overcome the limitation of data heterogeneity, which causing the ambiguity and leads to inconsistent results apart from problems of scale involve database size. The method first adopts Slantlet Transform (SLT) to bring out hidden texture details prior to feature extractions. Then, Local Binary Pattern (LBP) descriptor is applied on the SLT image to extract texture features. A new hybrid method Slantlet Transform based Local Binary Pattern (SLT-LBP), are experimented on an open and widely used HIT-MW Chinese database for performance evaluation. This study strengthens the idea that to unravel some of data heterogeneity and lead to improve identification performance, especially searching for relevant document from large complex repositories is an essential issue

Detecting early signs of depressive and manic episodes in patients with bipolar disorder using the signature-based model

Recurrent major mood episodes and subsyndromal mood instability cause substantial disability in patients with bipolar disorder. Early identification of mood episodes enabling timely mood stabilisation is an important clinical goal. Recent technological advances allow the prospective reporting of mood in real time enabling more accurate, efficient data capture. The complex nature of these data streams in combination with challenge of deriving meaning from missing data mean pose a significant analytic challenge. The signature method is derived from stochastic analysis and has the ability to capture important properties of complex ordered time series data. To explore whether the onset of episodes of mania and depression can be identified using self-reported mood data.Comment: 12 pages, 3 tables, 10 figure