Title
Automated Forgery Detection in Multispectral Document Images Using Fuzzy Clustering
Abstract
Multispectral imaging allows for analysis of images in multiple spectral bands. Over the past three decades, airborne and satellite multispectral imaging have been the focus of extensive research in remote sensing. In the recent years, ground based multispectral imaging has gained an immense amount of interest in the fields ranging from computer vision and medical imaging to art, archaeology and computational forensics. The rich information content in multispectral images allows forensic experts to examine the chemical composition of forensic traces. Due to its rapid, non-contact and non-destructive characteristics, multispectral imaging is an effective tool for visualization, age estimation, detection and identification of forensic traces in document images. Ink mismatch is a key indicator of forgery in a document. Inks of different materials exhibit different spectral signature even if they have the same color. Multispectral analysis of questioned documents images allows identification and discrimination of visually similar inks. In this paper, an efficient automatic ink mismatch detection technique is proposed which uses Fuzzy C-Means Clustering to divide the spectral responses of ink pixels in handwritten notes into different clusters which relate to the unique inks used in the document. Sauvola's local thresholding technique is employed to efficiently segment foreground text from the document image. Furthermore, feature selection is used to optimize the performance of the proposed method. The presented method provides better ink discrimination results than state-of-the-art methods when tested on publicly available UWA Writing Inks Dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/DAS.2018.26
2018 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multispectral Imaging,Forgery Detection,Ink Mismatch Detection,FCM Clustering,Feature Selection
Fuzzy clustering,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Visualization,Medical imaging,Multispectral image,Real-time computing,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Thresholding,Cluster analysis,Spectral signature
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-3347-2
2
0.36
References 
Authors
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Jaleed Khan1192.37
Adeel Yousaf2181.67
Khurram Khurshid312915.94
Asad Abbas420.36
Faisal Shafait5132488.97