Writer identification based on texture analysis

A new method to identify the writer of Chinese handwriting documents is described. There are many methods for signature verification or writer identification, but most of them require segmentation or connected component analysis. In this new method, the handwriting is taken as an image containing some special texture and writer identification is regarded as texture identification. This is a content independent method. We employ the well-established 2-D Gabor filtering technique to extract features of such textures and a weighted Euclidean distance classifier to fulfil the identification task. Experiments were made using Chinese handwritings from 17 different people and very promising results were achieved.