Handwriting Biometrics: Applications and Future Trends in e-Security and e-Health

TL;DR

This paper reviews online handwriting biometrics, emphasizing their applications in e-security and e-health, highlighting current achievements, challenges, and future research directions for leveraging handwriting signals in these fields.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in handwriting biometrics, focusing on security and health applications, and discusses future research challenges and opportunities.

Findings

Handwriting signals have dual use potential in security and health.

Security, health, and metadata should be considered jointly in future research.

The paper identifies key challenges and future directions in handwriting biometrics.

Abstract

Background- This paper summarizes the state-of-the-art and applications based on online handwritting signals with special emphasis on e-security and e-health fields. Methods- In particular, we focus on the main achievements and challenges that should be addressed by the scientific community, providing a guide document for future research. Conclusions- Among all the points discussed in this article, we remark the importance of considering security, health, and metadata from a joint perspective. This is especially critical due to the double use possibilities of these behavioral signals.