Objective paper structure comparison: assessing comparison algorithms.

Authors :: Berger CE
Ramos D
Source :: Forensic science international [Forensic Sci Int] 2012 Oct 10; Vol. 222 (1-3), pp. 360-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Aug 21.
Publication Year :: 2012
Abstract: More than just being a substrate, paper can also provide evidence for the provenance of documents. An earlier paper described a method to compare paper structure, based on the Fourier power spectra of light transmission images. Good results were obtained by using the 2D correlation of images derived from the power spectra as a similarity score, but the method was very computationally intensive. Different comparison algorithms are evaluated in this paper, using information theoretical criteria. An angular invariant algorithm turned out to be as effective as the original one but 4 orders of magnitude faster, making the use of much larger databases possible.<br /> (Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.)