Text Independent Writer Identification for Bengali Script

Automatic identification of an individual based on his/her handwriting characteristics is an important forensic tool. In a computational forensic scenario, presence of huge amount of text/information in a questioned document cannot be always ensured. Also, compromising in terms of systems reliability under such situation is not desirable. We here propose a system to encounter such adverse situation in the context of Bengali script. Experiments with discrete directional feature and gradient feature are reported here, along with Support Vector Machine (SVM) as classifier. We got promising results of 95.19% writer identification accuracy at first top choice and 99.03% when considering first three top choices.