DeepSign: Deep On-Line Signature Verification

Deep learning has become a breathtaking technology in the last years, overcoming traditional handcrafted approaches and even humans for many different tasks. However, in some tasks, such as the verification of handwritten signatures, the amount of publicly available data is scarce, what makes difficult to test the real limits of deep learning. In addition to the lack of public data, it is not easy to evaluate the improvements of novel proposed approaches as different databases and experimental protocols are usually considered. The main contributions of this study are: i) we provide an in-depth analysis of state-of-the-art deep learning approaches for on-line signature verification, ii) we present and describe the new DeepSignDB on-line handwritten signature biometric public database, iii) we propose a standard experimental protocol and benchmark to be used for the research community in order to perform a fair comparison of novel approaches with the state of the art, and iv) we adapt and evaluate our recent deep learning approach named Time-Aligned Recurrent Neural Networks (TA-RNNs) for the task of on-line handwritten signature verification. This approach combines the potential of Dynamic Time Warping and Recurrent Neural Networks to train more robust systems against forgeries. Our proposed TA-RNN system outperforms the state of the art, achieving results even below 2.0% EER when considering skilled forgery impostors and just one training signature per user

Fuzzy Logic Classification of Handwritten Signature Based Computer Access and File Encryption

Often times computer access and file encryption is successful based on how complex a password will be, how often users could change their complex password, the length of the complex password and how creative users are in creating a complex passsword to stand against unauthorized access to computer resources or files. This research proposes a new way of computer access and file encryption based on the fuzzy logic classification of handwritten signatures. Feature extraction of the handwritten signatures, the Fourier transformation algorithm and the k-Nearest Algorithm could be implemented to determine how close the signature is to the signature on file to grant or deny users access to computer resources and encrypted files. lternatively implementing fuzzy logic algorithms and fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm to the captured signature could determine how close a signature is to the one on file to grant or deny access to computer resources and files. This research paper accomplishes the feature recognition firstly by extracting the features as users sign their signatures for storage, and secondly by determining the shortest distance between the signatures. On the other hand this research work accomplish the fuzzy logic recognition firstly by classifying the signature into a membership groups based on their degree of membership and secondly by determining what level of closeness the signatures are from each other. The signatures were collected from three selected input devices- the mouse, I-Pen and the IOGear. This research demonstrates which input device users found efficient and flexible to sign their respective names. The research work also demonstrates the security levels of implementing the fuzzy logic, fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbor, Fourier Transform.Master'sCollege of Arts and Sciences: Computer ScienceUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/117719/1/Kwarteng.pd

Introduction to Presentation Attacks in Signature Biometrics and Recent Advances

Applications based on biometric authentication have received a lot of interest in the last years due to the breathtaking results obtained using personal traits such as face or fingerprint. However, it is important not to forget that these biometric systems have to withstand different types of possible attacks. This chapter carries out an analysis of different Presentation Attack (PA) scenarios for on-line handwritten signature verification. The main contributions of this chapter are: i) an updated overview of representative methods for Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) in signature biometrics; ii) a description of the different levels of PAs existing in on-line signature verification regarding the amount of information available to the impostor, as well as the training, effort, and ability to perform the forgeries; and iii) an evaluation of the system performance in signature biometrics under different scenarios considering recent publicly available signature databases, DeepSignDB and SVC2021_EvalDB. This work is in line with recent efforts in the Common Criteria standardization community towards security evaluation of biometric systems.Comment: Chapter of the Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (Third Edition

An investigation of the predictability of the Brazilian three-modal hand-based behavioural biometric: a feature selection and feature-fusion approach

Abstract: New security systems, methods or techniques need to have their performance evaluated in conditions that closely resemble a real-life situation. The effectiveness with which individual identity can be predicted in different scenarios can benefit from seeking a broad base of identity evidence. Many approaches to the implementation of biometric-based identification systems are possible, and different configurations are likely to generate significantly different operational characteristics. The choice of implementational structure is, therefore, very dependent on the performance criteria, which is most important in any particular task scenario. The issue of improving performance can be addressed in many ways, but system configurations based on integrating different information sources are widely adopted in order to achieve this. Thus, understanding how each data information can influence performance is very important. The use of similar modalities may imply that we can use the same features. However, there is no indication that very similar (such as keyboard and touch keystroke dynamics, for example) basic biometrics will perform well using the same set of features. In this paper, we will evaluate the merits of using a three-modal hand-based biometric database for user prediction focusing on feature selection as the main investigation point. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first thought-out analysis of a database with three modalities that were collected from the same users, containing keyboard keystroke, touch keystroke and handwritten signature. First, we will investigate how the keystroke modalities perform, and then, we will add the signature in order to understand if there is any improvement in the results. We have used a wide range of techniques for feature selection that includes filters and wrappers (genetic algorithms), and we have validated our findings using a clustering technique

BioTouchPass: Handwritten Passwords for Touchscreen Biometrics

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessibleThis work enhances traditional authentication systems based on Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and One- Time Passwords (OTP) through the incorporation of biometric information as a second level of user authentication. In our proposed approach, users draw each digit of the password on the touchscreen of the device instead of typing them as usual. A complete analysis of our proposed biometric system is carried out regarding the discriminative power of each handwritten digit and the robustness when increasing the length of the password and the number of enrolment samples. The new e-BioDigit database, which comprises on-line handwritten digits from 0 to 9, has been acquired using the finger as input on a mobile device. This database is used in the experiments reported in this work and it is available together with benchmark results in GitHub1. Finally, we discuss specific details for the deployment of our proposed approach on current PIN and OTP systems, achieving results with Equal Error Rates (EERs) ca. 4.0% when the attacker knows the password. These results encourage the deployment of our proposed approach in comparison to traditional PIN and OTP systems where the attack would have 100% success rate under the same impostor scenarioThis work has been supported by projects: BIBECA (MINECO), Bio-Guard (Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Equipos de Investigación Científica 2017) and by UAM-CecaBank. Ruben Tolosana is supported by a FPU Fellowship from Spanish MEC

eBiometrics: an enhanced multi-biometrics authentication technique for real-time remote applications on mobile devices

The use of mobile communication devices with advance sensors is growing rapidly. These sensors are enabling functions such as Image capture, Location applications, and Biometric authentication such as Fingerprint verification and Face & Handwritten signature recognition. Such ubiquitous devices are essential tools in today's global economic activities enabling anywhere-anytime financial and business transactions. Cryptographic functions and biometric-based authentication can enhance the security and confidentiality of mobile transactions. Using Biometric template security techniques in real-time biometric-based authentication are key factors for successful identity verification solutions, but are venerable to determined attacks by both fraudulent software and hardware. The EU-funded SecurePhone project has designed and implemented a multimodal biometric user authentication system on a prototype mobile communication device. However, various implementations of this project have resulted in long verification times or reduced accuracy and/or security. This paper proposes to use built-in-self-test techniques to ensure no tampering has taken place on the verification process prior to performing the actual biometric authentication. These techniques utilises the user personal identification number as a seed to generate a unique signature. This signature is then used to test the integrity of the verification process. Also, this study proposes the use of a combination of biometric modalities to provide application specific authentication in a secure environment, thus achieving optimum security level with effective processing time. I.e. to ensure that the necessary authentication steps and algorithms running on the mobile device application processor can not be undermined or modified by an imposter to get unauthorized access to the secure system