Developing a Model for Offline Signature Verification Using CNN Architectures and Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

The signature verification process has many applications, such as its use in financial operations, providing the electronic signature of documents, and providing an additional confidentiality standard to verify the identity of users in computer systems. This process has the advantage of being accepted by the community and is less intrusive compared to other biological methods. Deep learning (DL) and CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) are widely used by bioinformaticians. Due to the difficulty in extracting features in other systems or models, DL and CNN-based signature verification systems have been significantly improved. Yet Hyperparameter optimization for CNN models remains a challenging problem in designing highly efficient models with the most accurate results. It is often convolutional neural network (CNN) models that are manually designed. The proposed method is focused on a genetic algorithm that develops a population of CNN models in order to find the best fit architecture for designing an offline signature verification model. Our model is tested on more than one dataset, BHSig260-Bengali, BHSig260-Hindiin, GPDS, and CEDAR. The result of the approach proposed in this paper has the highest discrimination rate of FRR of 2.5, FAR 3.2, EER 2.35, and 97.73 %-accuracy rate.