A new offline handwritten signature modeling is introduced
that confluences disciplines from grid feature extraction and information
theory. The proposed scheme advances further a previously reported feature
extraction technique which exploits pixel transitions along the signature
trace over predetermined two pixel paths. In this new work the
feature components, partitioned in groups, are considered as events of a
grid based discrete space probabilistic source. Based on the 16-ary FCB2
feature, a set of 87 orthogonal event schemes, organized in tetrads, is
identified. Next an entropy rule is drawn in order to declare the most
appropriate tetrad scheme for representing a writer’s signature. When
skilled forgery is encountered verification results derived on both the
GPDS300 dataset and a proprietary one, indicate enhanced EER rates
compared to other approaches, including the previous reference of FCB2
as well.