An innovative approach for extracting signatures from bank cheque images and other documents is proposed based on the integration of the crop method with the sliding window technique. The idea is to estimate the approximate area in which the signature lies using the sliding window technique. In this approach, a window of adaptable height and width is moved over the image; one pixel at a time an...

In two-party computation, achieving both fairness and guaranteed output delivery is well known to be impossible. Despite this limitation, many approaches provide solutions of practical interest by weakening somewhat the fairness requirement. Such approaches fall roughly in three categories: “gradual release” schemes assume that the aggrieved party can eventually reconstruct the missing informat...

In the setting of secure multiparty computation, a set of mutually distrustful parties wish to securely compute some joint function of their private inputs. The computation should be carried out in a secure way, meaning that the properties privacy, correctness, independence of inputs, fairness and guaranteed output delivery should all be preserved. Unfortunately, in the case of no honest majori...

Character recognition systems can contribute tremendously to the advancement of the automation process and can improve the interaction between man and machine in many applications, including office automation, cheque verification and a large variety of banking, business and data entry applications. The main theme of this paper is the automatic recognition of hand-printed Arabic characters using...

It is common to view banks as financial intermediaries which take deposits and lend funds, thereby earning profit primarily from the difference between the interest rates they charge for loans and those they pay on deposits. Banks, however, provide a range of other financial services. Each of the major banks, for example, offers insurance, funds management, advisory services, financial markets ...

---------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-----------------------------------------------The associative memory feature of the Hopfield type recurrent neural network is used for the pattern storage and pattern authentication. This paper outlines an optimization relaxation approach for signature verification based on the Hopfield neural network (HNN) which is a recurrent network...

Nesta pesquisa, investigamos a participação do povo indígena Arara Rio Branco no licenciamento ambiental da rodovia BR-174, ocorrido estado Mato Grosso. A das comunidades indígenas é exigida pela legislação brasileira, masnem sempre devidamente concretizada. investigação foi realizada com pesquisa documental e base na experiência profissional dos autores. Partimos conceitos de doxa, territorial...