Cargando…

Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures

A handwritten signature is the final response to a complex cognitive and neuromuscular process which is the result of the learning process. Because of the many factors involved in signing, it is possible to study the signature from many points of view: graphologists, forensic experts, neurologists a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Diaz-Cabrera, Moises, Ferrer, Miguel A., Morales, Aythami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25860942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123254
_version_ 1782366105775374336
author Diaz-Cabrera, Moises
Ferrer, Miguel A.
Morales, Aythami
author_facet Diaz-Cabrera, Moises
Ferrer, Miguel A.
Morales, Aythami
author_sort Diaz-Cabrera, Moises
collection PubMed
description A handwritten signature is the final response to a complex cognitive and neuromuscular process which is the result of the learning process. Because of the many factors involved in signing, it is possible to study the signature from many points of view: graphologists, forensic experts, neurologists and computer vision experts have all examined them. Researchers study written signatures for psychiatric, penal, health and automatic verification purposes. As a potentially useful, multi-purpose study, this paper is focused on the lexical morphology of handwritten signatures. This we understand to mean the identification, analysis, and description of the signature structures of a given signer. In this work we analyze different public datasets involving 1533 signers from different Western geographical areas. Some relevant characteristics of signature lexical morphology have been selected, examined in terms of their probability distribution functions and modeled through a General Extreme Value distribution. This study suggests some useful models for multi-disciplinary sciences which depend on handwriting signatures.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4393123
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2015
publisher Public Library of Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-43931232015-04-21 Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures Diaz-Cabrera, Moises Ferrer, Miguel A. Morales, Aythami PLoS One Research Article A handwritten signature is the final response to a complex cognitive and neuromuscular process which is the result of the learning process. Because of the many factors involved in signing, it is possible to study the signature from many points of view: graphologists, forensic experts, neurologists and computer vision experts have all examined them. Researchers study written signatures for psychiatric, penal, health and automatic verification purposes. As a potentially useful, multi-purpose study, this paper is focused on the lexical morphology of handwritten signatures. This we understand to mean the identification, analysis, and description of the signature structures of a given signer. In this work we analyze different public datasets involving 1533 signers from different Western geographical areas. Some relevant characteristics of signature lexical morphology have been selected, examined in terms of their probability distribution functions and modeled through a General Extreme Value distribution. This study suggests some useful models for multi-disciplinary sciences which depend on handwriting signatures. Public Library of Science 2015-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4393123/ /pubmed/25860942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123254 Text en © 2015 Diaz-Cabrera et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Diaz-Cabrera, Moises
Ferrer, Miguel A.
Morales, Aythami
Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures
title Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures
title_full Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures
title_fullStr Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures
title_full_unstemmed Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures
title_short Modeling the Lexical Morphology of Western Handwritten Signatures
title_sort modeling the lexical morphology of western handwritten signatures
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25860942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123254
work_keys_str_mv AT diazcabreramoises modelingthelexicalmorphologyofwesternhandwrittensignatures
AT ferrermiguela modelingthelexicalmorphologyofwesternhandwrittensignatures
AT moralesaythami modelingthelexicalmorphologyofwesternhandwrittensignatures