• DocumentCode
    2476248
  • Title

    A lossless image compression method for human static signatures

  • Author

    Lee, Luan Ling ; Lizarraga, Miguel G.

  • Author_Institution
    UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    25-29 Aug 1996
  • Firstpage
    910
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a lossless compression method for static human signatures. The method consists of four sequential procedures: (1) the static signature image bounding; (2) the signature image partition; (3) the elimination of redundancies in the signature image patterns, and (4) the code optimization through the truncated Huffman coding. Experimental results reveal a compression rate of 96.98% over human static signatures on the average is achieved
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; data compression; handwriting recognition; image coding; redundancy; code optimization; human static signatures; image acquisition; image bounding; lossless image compression; redundancies; signature image partition; signature verification; truncated Huffman coding; visual database; Authentication; Authorization; Data mining; Digital signatures; Feature extraction; Handwriting recognition; Humans; Image coding; Optimization methods; Pixel;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vienna
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7282-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.1996.547300
  • Filename
    547300