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Team 6 Experimental Handwriting SystemAllen
AlarconIngrid AndersonBhupesh KapoorShi-wu Lee
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Objectives of Study

• Validate individuality of handwriting
• Is there a difference among the abilities of
  Certified Document Examiners, Novices, and
  Machine?
• Create a tool to help answer question

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Processes Used to Carry out Study

• Online Quiz
• a. Collect original and forgery handwriting
  samples.
• b. Create database for storage of samples.
• c. Create Online Quiz
• Distribute Quiz
• a. Novices
• b. Certified Document Examiners.
• c. Machine (not carried out)

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Validity of our Study

• Comments by Certified Document Examiners
• Sample collection must be collected under same
  conditions.
• Digitized images are pixilated and lack
  sufficient clarity.
• Limited by one word, need writing in a larger
  context.
• Divergence in Writing how much does a writer
  diverge from stroke to stroke.
• Computer images are becoming more prevalent in
  examinations

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Statistics Novices
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Statistics Experts
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Results / Conclusions

• Comparison of Data Sets for Novice and Experts.
• Relative difficulty in forging certain
  handwriting styles.
• Preliminary results reveal that novices and
  experts utilize different parameters in making
  selections.
• Dr. Moshe Kam from Drexel University confirmed
  that lay people are more likely than legitimate
  examiners at misidentifying writers.
• To what extent does a computerized image restrict
  an examiners ability to make an identification?

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Snapshot of Online Quiz 1
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Snapshot of Online Quiz 2
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System ArchitectureFront-end
portalWeb Graphical User Interface- interface
for accepting surveys from participants.
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Back-end portalCustomed Database -
stores results/comments from participants