Title
Hyperspectral Image Analysis for Writer Identification using Deep Learning
Abstract
Handwriting is a behavioral characteristic of human beings that is one of the common idiosyncrasies utilized for litigation purposes. Writer identification is commonly used for forensic examination of questioned and specimen documents. Recent advancements in imaging and machine learning technologies have empowered the development of automated, intelligent and robust writer identification methods. Most of the existing methods based on human defined features and color imaging have limited performance in terms of accuracy and robustness. However, rich spectral information content obtained from hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and suitable spatio-spectral features extracted using deep learning can significantly enhance the performance of writer identification in terms of accuracy and robustness. In this paper, we propose a novel writer identification method in which spectral responses of text pixels in a hyperspectral document image are extracted and are fed to a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for writer classification. Different CNN architectures, hyperparameters, spatio-spectral formats, train-test ratios and inks are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed system on the UWA Writing Inks Hyperspectral Images (WIHSI) database and to select the most suitable set of parameters for writer identification. The findings of this work have opened a new arena in forensic document analysis for writer identification using HSI and deep learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/DICTA47822.2019.8945886
2019 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
deep learning,hyperspectral image analysis,writer identification,document forensics,convolutional neural network
Document analysis,Hyperparameter,Handwriting,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Hyperspectral imaging,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Deep learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-3858-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ammad Ul Islam100.34
Muhammad Jaleed Khan201.35
Khurram Khurshid312915.94
Faisal Shafait4132488.97