The semi-text-independent method of writer verification based on the linear framework is a method that can use
all characters of two handwritings to discriminate the writers in the condition of knowing the text contents. The
handwritings are allowed to just have small numbers of even totally different characters. This fills the vacancy
of the classical text-dependent methods and the text-independent methods of writer verification. Moreover, the
information, what every character is, is used for the semi-text-independent method in this paper. Two types
of standard templates, generated from many writer-unknown handwritten samples and printed samples of each
character, are introduced to represent the content information of each character. The difference vectors of the
character samples are gotten by subtracting the standard templates from the original feature vectors and used
to replace the original vectors in the process of writer verification. By removing a large amount of content
information and remaining the style information, the verification accuracy of the semi-text-independent method
is improved. On a handwriting database involving 30 writers, when the query handwriting and the reference
handwriting are composed of 30 distinct characters respectively, the average equal error rate (EER) of writer
verification reaches 9.96%. And when the handwritings contain 50 characters, the average EER falls to 6.34%,
which is 23.9% lower than the EER of not using the difference vectors.
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