Many of you are aware that 2D barcodes--which look like waffles--are becoming ubiquitous for location-based services, mobile commerce, and increasingly point-of-sale and track and trace applications. Did you know that there are many more you cannot see? They're covert 2D barcodes. And the master...
My previous post was a link to the excellent In-Pharma Technologist blog edited by Nick Taylor. Nick solicited a posting from me back in April, but I could not find it on In-Pharma, so given a 1/2 year grace period, I think its time to post here: Variable Data Printing and Improved Pharma Product Protection...
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Security Printing and Imaging
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StevenSimske
on 10-14-2009
Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, security, VDP, Track and Trace, authentication, SVDP, mass serialization, image forensics, steganography, counterfeit
If there is no rest for the wicked, then I have been very evil these past two weeks indeed. But, I hope some of the findings are wickedly cool. This post is for the paper on new findings in security printing and imaging, and my co-authors are that talented trio of Guy Adams, Jason Aronoff and Margaret...
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Security Printing and Imaging
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StevenSimske
on 09-24-2009
Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, image forensics, NIP25 Conference, NIP25, Counterfeit detection, IS&T NIP25, classification, accuracy
Printing and scanning change what you intended to print. This matters in variable data security printing, since there is information encoded there. My friend and colleague Marie Vans explores this issue in another NIP25 paper posted here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-318.html The approach...
It's September. The month when most people's gas bills hit rock bottom. Kids are back in school, harvest is still just sweat and fury in the future. Closed are the pools, open are the schools, and life is good. Too good. So, those wonderful conference organizers have nothing better to do than...
IMI’s 6th Annual Security Printing Conference is being held on November 16-18, 2009 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, as noted in an earlier blog. Al Keene has sent me the conference brochure (please see attachment below). A number of my colleagues and friends...
Today is the middle day of the 3-day DocEng 2009 ACM Symposium (not including the Workshop held before the Symposium, which was on document versioning). The website is http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/ , and the program is available at http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/download/program.pdf . Please contact me on...
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StevenSimske
on 09-17-2009
Filed under: security printing, security, DocEng, document engineering, ACM, color barcodes, Color tiles, ACM DocEng, DocEng 2009, mobile barcodes, color bar codes, Munich, documents, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen