Signature Recognition System as SaaS on Microsoft Azure for Tablets

Developments in the field of Information Technology also make Information Security a devoted part of it. In order to deal with security, authentication plays an imperative role. In this book, biometrics is used for authentication which also describes how it leverages cloud¿s boundless computational resources and striking properties of ¿exibility, scalability, and cost reduction in order to reduce the cost of the biometric system requirements. The purpose of this research is to design a biometric based cloud architecture for online signature recognition on Windows Tablet PC, which will make the Signature Recognition System (SRS) more scalable, pluggable and faster, thereby categorizing it under ¿Bring Your Own Device¿ category. The execution of this feature extraction process as well as the implementation of the classifier for the verification process is deployed on Microsoft Azure public cloud. The unbounded storage capacity and high processing power of cloud architecture makes this SRS a highly scalable, flexible, faster and low-cost biometric system. Thus, this book is intended for those who wish to explore the enormous ability of Cloud Computing for developing precise SRS.