Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting

Forensic document examintation of handwriting to determine the authorship of questioned documents has been in use for more than 100 years. However, in recent court cases the acceptability of forensic document analysis has been successfully challenged. It has been pointed that the techniques, althoug...

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Main Author:	Pervouchine, Vladimir
Other Authors:	Leedham Charles Graham
Format:	Theses and Dissertations
Published:	2008
Subjects:	DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10356/2515
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-25152023-03-04T00:39:33Z Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting Pervouchine, Vladimir Leedham Charles Graham School of Computer Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition Forensic document examintation of handwriting to determine the authorship of questioned documents has been in use for more than 100 years. However, in recent court cases the acceptability of forensic document analysis has been successfully challenged. It has been pointed that the techniques, although intuitively reasonable, lack strong scientific foundation. In this thesis a study of discriminative power of a number of character-level features is presented. The features correspond to those used by forensic document examiners. It was shown that most of the studied features indeed possess discriminative power and hence their use in forensic analysis of handwriting is justified. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SCE) 2008-09-17T09:04:37Z 2008-09-17T09:04:37Z 2006 2006 Thesis Pervouchine, V. (2006). Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/2515 10.32657/10356/2515 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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description	Forensic document examintation of handwriting to determine the authorship of questioned documents has been in use for more than 100 years. However, in recent court cases the acceptability of forensic document analysis has been successfully challenged. It has been pointed that the techniques, although intuitively reasonable, lack strong scientific foundation. In this thesis a study of discriminative power of a number of character-level features is presented. The features correspond to those used by forensic document examiners. It was shown that most of the studied features indeed possess discriminative power and hence their use in forensic analysis of handwriting is justified.
author2	Leedham Charles Graham
author_facet	Leedham Charles Graham Pervouchine, Vladimir
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title	Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting
title_short	Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting
title_full	Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting
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Discriminative power of features used by forensic document examiners in the analysis of handwriting

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