Classification of Handwritten Text Signatures by Person and Gender: A Comparative Study of Transfer Learning Methods

Sidar Agduk and Emrah Aydemir

Acta Informatica Pragensia, 2022, vol. 2022, issue 3, 324-347

Abstract: The writing process, in which feelings and thoughts are expressed in writing, differs from person to person. Handwriting samples, which are very easy to obtain, are frequently used to identify individuals because they are biometric data. Today, with human-machine interaction increasing by the day, machine learning algorithms are frequently used in offline handwriting identification. Within the scope of this study, a dataset was created from 3250 handwritten images of 65 people. We tried to classify collected handwriting samples according to person and gender. In the classification made for person and gender recognition, feature extraction was done using 32 different transfer learning algorithms in the Python program. For person and gender estimation, the classification process was carried out using the random forest algorithm. 28 different classification algorithms were used, with DenseNet169 yielding the most successful results, and the data were classified in terms of person and gender. As a result, the highest success rates obtained in person and gender classification were 92.46% and 92.77%, respectively.

Keywords: Offline Handwriting Recognition; DenseNet169; Machine Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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