Abstract
Diffractive optically variable image devices (DOVIDs) are popular security features used to protect security documents such as banknotes, ID cards, passports, etc. Nevertheless, checking authenticity of these security features on both user as well as forensic level still remains a challenging task, requiring sophisticated hardware tools and expert knowledge. Based on a photometric acquisition setup comprised of 32 illumination sources from different directions and a recently proposed descriptor capturing the illumination dependent behavior, we investigate the information content, illumination pattern shape and clustering properties of the descriptor. We studied shape and discriminative power of reduced illumination configurations for the task of discrimination applied to DOVIDs using a sample of Euro banknotes.
We Would Like to Thank the National Bank of Austria (OeNB), Test Center, Vienna for Providing Us with Samples and Expertise in the Field of Banknote Authentication.
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Soukup, D., Štolc, S., Huber-Mörk, R. (2015). On Optimal Illumination for DOVID Description Using Photometric Stereo. In: Battiato, S., Blanc-Talon, J., Gallo, G., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (eds) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. ACIVS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_48
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