A Comparative Study of Traced and Simulated Forgery on Signature

Abstract - Signature forgery remains an important issues in the field of forensic document analysis especially in financial, legal and administrative scenarios. This study compares two forms of signature forgery that is traced and simulated by manually. The objective of this study is to analyze and differentiate the class and individual characteristics of traced and simulated forgery on signature. For the analysis, 40 genuine signature samples are collected from random persons of age groups of 18 to 25. Then performed the traced and simulated forgery. This study helps to identify which type of forgery are easier to recognize by manual forensic method. The findings provide clarification on the capability of manual signature analysis. Traced forgery exhibit closely resembles to the genuine signature samples in overall size and shapes but shows difference in fluency, poor line quality and unnatural pen pressure. Simulated forgery fails to replicate fine details and appear more naturally but some are enlarged in size. From the analysis it is found that simulated forgery is more difficult to identify. Key Words: Forgery, Genuine, Traced forgery, Simulated forgery, Fluency, Line quality.