Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schirripa Spagnolo, Giuseppe
• Cozzella, Lorenzo
• Simonetti, Carla

Titel

Currency verification by a 2D infrared barcode

Ist Teil von

• Measurement science & technology, 2010-10, Vol.21 (10), p.107002-107002

Ort / Verlag

IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nowadays all the National Central Banks are continuously studying innovative anti-counterfeiting systems for banknotes. In this note, an innovative solution is proposed, which combines the potentiality of a hylemetric approach (methodology conceptually similar to biometry), based on notes' intrinsic characteristics, with a well-known and consolidated 2D barcode identification system. In particular, in this note we propose to extract from the banknotes a univocal binary control sequence (template) and insert an encrypted version of it in a barcode printed on the same banknote. For a more acceptable look and feel of a banknote, the superposed barcode can be stamped using IR ink that is visible to near-IR image sensors. This makes the banknote verification simpler.