Reliable identification of counterfeit medicine using camera equipped mobile phones

8th International Conference on High-Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging Technologies, HONET 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-279

  Ur Rehman, Saif ^a   Ur Rasool, Raihan ^a   Ayub, M Sohaib ^a   Ullah, Saeed ^a   Kamal, Aatif ^a   Rajpoot, Qasim M ^a   Anwar, Zahid ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Counterfeit medicine; Data Matrix; Mobile Phones; Product Authentication

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; DATA MATRICES; END USERS; GLOBAL PROBLEMS; HUMAN LIVES; PRODUCT AUTHENTICATION; SECURITY WEAKNESS; SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; SCALABILITY;

CRIME;

EID: 84857470269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HONET.2011.6149832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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