Title
A Watermarking Technique to Secure Printed Matrix Barcode—Application for Anti-Counterfeit Packaging
Abstract
Counterfeiting of consumer goods is a critical problem which causes various negative impacts for consumers, enterprises and the whole economic ecosystem. Anti-counterfeit labels and packaging is one of the main solutions to help enterprises protect their brand against this concern. In this paper, we introduced a novel watermarking technique, which embeds a particular random micro-texture into a matrix barcode and transforms this one into a security layer for making packaging anti-counterfeited. The secured matrix barcode is hard to be reproduced by counterfeiters. In fact, any degradations caused by the counterfeiting process will change the statistical behaviors of the embedded micro-texture. Statistical detectors based on the hypothesis testing framework are also introduced to classify authentic and counterfeited printed barcodes. Experimental results confirm the usability and the effectiveness of the proposed anti-counterfeiting solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2937465
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Anti-counterfeiting,printed watermarking,matrix code,statistical hypothesis testing
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hoai Phuong Nguyen100.68
Florent Retraint224622.82
Frederic Morain-Nicolier3134.43
Anges Delahaies400.34