Because of the widespread availability of low-cost printers and scanners,document forgery has become extremely popular.Watermarks or signatures are used to protect important papers such as certificates,passports,and i...Because of the widespread availability of low-cost printers and scanners,document forgery has become extremely popular.Watermarks or signatures are used to protect important papers such as certificates,passports,and identification cards.Identifying the origins of printed documents is helpful for criminal investigations and also for authenticating digital versions of a document in today’s world.Source printer identification(SPI)has become increasingly popular for identifying frauds in printed documents.This paper provides a proposed algorithm for identifying the source printer and categorizing the questioned document into one of the printer classes.A dataset of 1200 papers from 20 distinct(13)laser and(7)inkjet printers achieved significant identification results.A proposed algorithm based on global features such as the Histogram of Oriented Gradient(HOG)and local features such as Local Binary Pattern(LBP)descriptors has been proposed for printer identification.For classification,Decision Trees(DT),k-Nearest Neighbors(k-NN),Random Forests,Aggregate bootstrapping(bagging),Adaptive-boosting(boosting),Support Vector Machine(SVM),and mixtures of these classifiers have been employed.The proposed algorithm can accurately classify the questioned documents into their appropriate printer classes.The adaptive boosting classifier attained a 96%accuracy.The proposed algorithm is compared to four recently published algorithms that used the same dataset and gives better classification accuracy.展开更多
文摘Because of the widespread availability of low-cost printers and scanners,document forgery has become extremely popular.Watermarks or signatures are used to protect important papers such as certificates,passports,and identification cards.Identifying the origins of printed documents is helpful for criminal investigations and also for authenticating digital versions of a document in today’s world.Source printer identification(SPI)has become increasingly popular for identifying frauds in printed documents.This paper provides a proposed algorithm for identifying the source printer and categorizing the questioned document into one of the printer classes.A dataset of 1200 papers from 20 distinct(13)laser and(7)inkjet printers achieved significant identification results.A proposed algorithm based on global features such as the Histogram of Oriented Gradient(HOG)and local features such as Local Binary Pattern(LBP)descriptors has been proposed for printer identification.For classification,Decision Trees(DT),k-Nearest Neighbors(k-NN),Random Forests,Aggregate bootstrapping(bagging),Adaptive-boosting(boosting),Support Vector Machine(SVM),and mixtures of these classifiers have been employed.The proposed algorithm can accurately classify the questioned documents into their appropriate printer classes.The adaptive boosting classifier attained a 96%accuracy.The proposed algorithm is compared to four recently published algorithms that used the same dataset and gives better classification accuracy.
