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For instance, motion trajectory can play an im portant role in the representation, recognition and learning of most long-term human or robot actions, behaviors and activities. However, effective trajectory descriptors are lacking and most reported work just uses motion trajectory in its raw data form. In this paper, we propose a novel motion trajectory signature descriptor and study its rich descriptive invariants which benefit effective motion trajectory recognition. These invariants are key measures of the flexibility and effectiveness of a descriptor. Substantial descriptive invariants can be deduced from the proposed trajectory signature, which is attributed to the computational locality of the signature components. We first present the signature definition and its robust implementation. Then the signature's invariants are elaborated. A non-linear inter-signature matching algorithm is developed to measure the signature's similarity for trajectory recognition. 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