In this paper, the sensor of an optical mouse is presented as a counterfeit coin detector applied to the two-Euro case. The detection process is based on the short distance image acquisition capabilities of the optical mouse sensor where partial images of the coin under analysis are compared with some partial reference coin images for matching. Results show that, using only the vision sense, th...

We explore the problem of proving ownership or origin of multimedia content like image / video or audio signals through watermarking. The need for watermarking arises out of the unsuitability of present copyright laws for claiming ownership of digital content. Watermarking schemes however, are threatened by counterfeit attacks, which primarily use the freedom available in the choice of signatur...

Fake news has become a hotly debated topic in journalism. In this paper, we present our entry to the 2017 Fake News Challenge which models the detection of fake news as a stance classification task that finished in 11th place on the leader board. Our entry is an ensemble system of classifiers developed by students in the context of their coursework. We show how we used the stacking ensemble met...

Counterfeiting established a global problem that resulted in deliberate supply chain corruption where degraded drugs led to therapeutic failures and deaths. The active ingredient in counterfeit drugs replaced by lesser quantity of the active chemical agent, sugar, chalk and sometimes toxic compounds that counterfeiters can increase their profit selling the degraded product at a lower price. In ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the authentication and detection rate of serialised medicines using medicines authentication technology. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION 4192 serialised medicines were entered into a hospital dispensary over two separate 8-week stages in 2015. Medicines were authenticated using secure external database cross-checking, triggered by the scanning of a two-dimensional data matrix w...