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Thanks to the Program Chairs of IEEE WIFS 2009, the First IEEE International Workshop of Information Forensics and Security, you have an extra 9 days to submit your research on: * Biometrics * Computer Security * Cryptography for Multimedia Content * Data Hiding * Digital Rights Management (DRM) * Forensic...
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Security printing professionals may be interested in submitting to the IS&T/ISJ sponsored NIP25 conference, the "International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies" http://www.imaging.org/conferences/nip25/index.cfm (currently, the deadline for submission is 22 February) I'm...
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[Part one of whitepaper-length recap's from this year's blog] An Evolving Allegory As an allegory for security printing, I have borrowed the concept of pre-adaptation from evolutionary biology. In the next few blogs I will borrow much more extensively from the concepts and terms in evolutionary...
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12-30-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Gutenberg, Niles Eldridge, cladogram
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The final section of the security printing/evolution allegory is punctuated equilibrium. Punctuated equilibrium is an evolutionary biology hypothesis largely attributable to Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould in 1972. The theory states that species normally undergo relatively modest phenotypic change...
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11-29-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Gutenberg, Niles Eldridge, cladogram
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Survival of the fittest One of evolution’s tautologies is survival of the fittest. Whatever is best fit to survive, survives. Whatever survives is, by extension, fittest to survive. A lot like que será, será—whatever will be, will be. Sure, we get it—it’s a definition! However, this is a tautology only...
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11-05-2008
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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, Stephen Jay Gould, Social Darwinism, Complexity, Contingency
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Change isn’t always for the better. You can, for example, be short-changed. You can change from bad to worse. You can change your Outlook (Microsoft or otherwise). Or you can change a diaper (well, this is better, presumably, for the wearer of the diaper). Even in evolution, change is not for the “better...
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10-17-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Mimicry, Analogy, Homology, Batesian Mimicry
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Co-evolution is the process by which two species simultaneous exert selective pressure on each other, termed “reciprocal evolutionary adaptations”. Flowers and bees are a good example of mutualism, wherein the shared selective pressure results in a tangible advantage for both species (the flowers get...
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10-05-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Host-Parasite, Mutualism, Dilbert, Pointy-Haired Boss
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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 in evolutionary biology. Evolution and security...
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09-29-2008
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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
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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 used to solve such imaging challenges. Broadly...
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09-20-2008
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Filed under: security, authentication, forensics, inspection, imaging, image transformation, exposure, contrast, machine vision, pattern matching, image modeling, segmentation, image processing, templates, steganography, image understanding
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"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 devices) are packed with a host of "automatic"...
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09-18-2008
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Filed under: security, authentication, forensics, inspection, imaging, Sao Paulo, Morumbi bridge, GPS, image transformation, exposure, contrast
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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 & Forensic Printing session featured (links...
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09-16-2008
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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
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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 question. Does Theft Matter? When you consider the...
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09-09-2008
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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
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Recent blogs have focused on how deterrent technologies can be used to support the ecosystem required to provide strong brand protection and anti-counterfeiting. That ecosystem involves the PRACTICE mnemonic: P is for Plan, R is for Research, A is for Activate, C is for Collecting data, T is for Training...
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In the previous blog, I talked about your Deterrent Score, and mentioned you must multiply it by your Ecosystem Score to get your overall effectiveness. As I mentioned in the May 12 blog, it takes PRACTICE to put such an ecosystem together. In today’s blog, let’s talk about how a deterrent might fit...
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Immanuel Kant addressed human morality and its position in nature and the universe with his categorical imperative. The formula of Universal Law states that one must act in such a manner that you can at the same time will it should become a universal law (keep in mind, this last sentence is paraphrased...