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  • Publication
    Automated detection of counterfeit consumer goods using product inherent features
    ( 2013)
    Horn, Christian
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    Blankenburg, Matthias
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    It is a fact that counterfeiting jeopardizes the success of companies all over the world through violating intellectual propertyrights and causing enormous economic damage. Therefore it has become necessary for companies to secure their brands against counterfeiting. Existing technologies for automated counterfeit detection include the application of additional security features like Data Matrix Codes or RFIDs added to the brand product itself which raises the costs of the product. This text shows a new approach to secure a brand product by detecting product inherent features gained through the production process and the used.
  • Publication
    Product piracy prevention: Product counterfeit detection without security labels
    ( 2013)
    Horn, Christian
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    Blankenburg, Matthias
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    Fechteler, Maximilian
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    Counterfeiting is a challenge to companies, customers and marketsall over the world. Besides the economic damage which affects in particular the companies and countries that use advanced production and manufacturing processes based on intensive research and development to produce high quality goods, safety standards are omitted. These standards protect usually the customer from goods which are dangerous or harzardous to health. Product piracy prevention is often followed by the application of RFID tags to supervise supply chains. The lack of robust counterfeit detection methods created a market for artificial security labels which are used to secure the product itself. The specific conditions of production, manufacturing technologies and materials generate specific features, which identify every product uniquely. The innovation of this text is the detection of these features in an automated fashion through the combination of digital sensing and machine learning, rendering the application of artificial security labels obsolete.
  • Publication
    Inherent Id: A novel approach to detect counterfeit consumer goods using product inherent features
    ( 2013)
    Horn, Christian
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    Blankenburg, Matthias
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    Product-Piracy or counterfeiting is a well known problem which leads to economic damage that affects in particular countries that use advanced production and manufacturing processes based on intensive research and development to produce high quality goods. The existence of counterfeiting leads to the development of methods and technologies to secure high-quality products. The present way to secure top-quality products is often followed by an application of artificial security features. In this text we show a novel approach in detail to secure products against counterfeiting using features of the product itself instead of additional labels. The specific conditions of production, manufacturing technologies and materials generate specific features, which identify the product uniquely.