Digital Detectives: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Signature Forgery Detection

Authors: Kapoor A and Sinha S*

DOI: 10.23880/ijfsc-16000440

Volume 10, Issue 1

Abstract

Signatures are the most socially accepted behavioral biometric trait which is widely used as a means of personal identification routine transactions. Signatures peculiarly represent an individual due to the presence of certain class and individual characteristics which are subconsciously accommodated within a person and become one of his normal habits with the passage of time. This signature when replicated, results in intersection of two different individual characteristics with traces of replication, which on close examination can be detected by an experienced forensic document examination expert. This paper represents a comparative study for detection of forgery between the document expert’s opinion and role of Artificial Intelligence in it. It has been concluded that in order to increase the value of evidence in the court of law, the expert’s opinion should be supported with the results derived from automated methods, so that objectivity can be applied to this subjective area of document examination which is majorly based on the observation skills and the experience of an expert, where the opinion of different experts can vary

Keywords: Signature; Behavioral biometry; Forensic document examination expert; Comparison; Identification; Verification

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