Behavior Prediction Through Handwriting Analysis

Handwriting Analysis is described as a scientific study and analysis of handwriting. It is a way of interpreting behavior from peculiarities in handwriting. The scientific name for handwriting analysis is Graphology. Handwriting is often called mind writing or brain writing. All that is part of the mind is reflected by an individual in many ways, writing being one. Professional handwriting examiners called graphologists predict the personality of the writer with a piece of handwriting. Accuracy of handwriting analysis depends on the skills of the graphologists. But manual process of handwriting analysis is costly and prone to fatigue. Hence the proposed methodology focuses on developing a tool for behavior analysis which can predict the personality traits automatically with the help of a computer. In this paper a method has been proposed to predict the behavior of a person from the baseline, the letter slant, pen pressure, letter 'i' and letter 'f'. These parameters are input to the Artificial Neural Network which predicts the behavior of the writer. Handwriting Analysis or graphology is a scientific method of identifying, evaluating and understanding personality through the strokes and patterns revealed by handwriting. Handwriting reveals the true personality including emotional outlay, fears, honesty, defenses and many others. Handwriting is the written trace of each individual's preferred rhythm, style and habitual manner of moving. Handwriting analysis is an effective and reliable indicator of personality and behavior. Handwriting represents the mental status of a person and handwriting analysis is s projection technique as the body language that profiles the human behavior in areas of social skills, achievements, thinking styles, or work habits. Handwriting also depicts the possible ways of a person's transactions with stress. Handwriting analysis is a study of frozen graphic structures which are being generated in the author's brain and are placed on the paper in a cursive or printed handwriting style which is different from other authors comparing the personalities and their potential for problem solving. Professional handwriting examiners called graphologists often predict the personality of a person with a piece of handwriting. The graphologist provides a window to personality structure. By examining all elements of handwriting and interpreting them separately and together the graphologists generates a thumbnail sketch of the writer's character traits. With the help of graphology, handwriting analysts predict the attitudes, qualities, sentiments or postures. In this paper, a method has been proposed to predict the behavior of a person from the features extracted from his handwriting. The personality traits revealed by baseline, letter slant, pen pressure, letter 'i' and letter 'f' as found in individual's handwriting are explored in this paper. Five parameters, baseline, slant, pen pressure, letter 'i' and letter 'f' are input to the ANN which outputs the personality trait of the writer. The evaluation of the baseline and letter slant is using the polygonization method, the evaluation of pen pressure utilizes grey-level threshold value, and evaluations of letter 'i' and letter 'f' use template matching. MATLAB is the tool used for this purpose. The performance is measured by examining multiple samples. II. System Overview Professional handwriting examiners called graphologists often predict the personality of a person with the help of a piece of paper. But the accuracy of the results depend on the skills of the analyst. This manual process of handwriting analysis is very costly and time consuming. Hence the proposed methodology focuses on developing a tool for behavior analysis which can predict the personality traits automatically with the help of a computer. The various features in handwiting through which behvaior can be predicted are pen pressure, baseline, slant, width of margins, spacing between letters, spacing between words, size of writing, height of bar on letter 't', letter 'g', etc. In this paper a method has been proposed to predict the behavior of a person from five parameters- baseline, slant, pen pressure, letter 'i' and letter 'f'. The basic research design of the system is shown below: