Inspec keywords: biometrics (access control); image segmentation; gradient methods; feature extraction; handwriting recognition; text analysis

Other keywords: text-independent Persian writer identification; Persian documents; handwritten biometric recognition; energy-based; Persian characteristics; similar segmented characters; Persian handwriting database; statistical features; stroke codebook; gradient-based technique; feature vector; identifying writer; angle-based features; suggested method; Persian stroke concept; gradient-based approach; Persian language; segmented collected database; given handwriting; feature extraction; behavioural biometric systems; gradient descriptor; Persian strokes

Subjects: Optical, image and video signal processing; Other topics in statistics; Other topics in statistics; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Image recognition