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China/New Zealand Contaminated Milk--It's not just about brand protection and anti-counterfeiting

This blog focuses on security printing to prevent product counterfeiting and provide brand protection. However, the principles covered, if applied in the appropriate manner and context, can protect from product tampering, from product diversion, from...

Published 09-17-2008 3:18 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, VDP, Provenance, security VDP, RFID, tampering, Sanlu group, China milk scare, melamine, New Zealand milk scare, milk, adulterated milk powder
Does Theft Matter?

One of my colleagues and friends, Puneet Mehta (one of HP’s top RFID/Supply Chain experts), pinged me recently, and mentioned “I found this interesting article about the theft of baby formula. [Is it salient] to Security Printing?” This is an excellent...

Published 09-09-2008 5:15 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: variable data printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, Supply Chain, branding, VDP, security VDP, forensics, tamper-evidence, unique ID, packaging, copy-detection, baby formula, infant formula, labels, stealing, theft
Forgotten Factor in Financial Freefall?

In earlier blogs, I discussed the impact of the unflat earth, fuel prices and counterfeiting on the economics of branded goods. With the US economy in free fall, and its impact on the world economy remaining to be seen, it is worth considering the role...

Published 09-19-2008 2:10 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting, security, branding, fuel costs, oil price, economy, fakes, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, financial, Iraq War, AIG
Imaging Challenges, Part Deux

In a blog post earlier on this busy blogging week (hard to tell I'm spending a lot of time rotting in airports/hotels, no?), I introduced some of the difficulties in image clustering, or aggregation. This post introduces some of the broad approaches...

Published 09-20-2008 11:30 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, authentication, forensics, inspection, imaging, image transformation, exposure, contrast, machine vision, pattern matching, image modeling, segmentation, image processing, templates, steganography, image understanding
An Evolving Analogy

In previous public presentations and in this blog, I have borrowed the concept of pre-adaptation from evolutionary biology to describe the role of printing in security. In the next few blogs I will borrow much more extensively from the concepts and terms...

Published 09-29-2008 4:38 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution
Conference Time: NIP24 and DocEng2008

Hi, all I have been and am currently attending a couple of conferences last week and this. The IS&T sponsored NIP24 conference was last week. Please see http://www.imaging.org/conferences/NIP_DF2008/index.cfm for information. In particular, the Security...

Published 09-16-2008 5:03 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, brand protection, copying, forensics, copy-detection, DocEng, layout, MICR, conductive inks, OCR, optical character recognition, IS&T, NIP24, imaging, watermarking, document engineering, ACM
Imaging Challenges

"Imaging" is a broad term meaning the ability to transform, interpret and/or associate an image. Sounds pretty easy, right? But when you consider what is actually involved, it's pretty hard. Most modern digital cameras (and other photo-capture...

Published 09-18-2008 11:57 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, authentication, forensics, inspection, imaging, Sao Paulo, Morumbi bridge, GPS, image transformation, exposure, contrast
Thank You...

Jamie Beckett, who has been my (and many other HP Labs employees') web guru--helping to explain the rationale and often the mechanics of successfully presenting on the Web (I have an HP-internal website, so her guidance does extend much further back...

Published 09-28-2008 2:55 AM by StevenSimske

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China/New Zealand Contaminated Milk--It's not just about brand protection and anti-counterfeiting

Does Theft Matter?

Forgotten Factor in Financial Freefall?

Imaging Challenges, Part Deux

An Evolving Analogy

Conference Time: NIP24 and DocEng2008

Imaging Challenges

Thank You...