Novel online security system based rare-earth doped glass micro beads

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5310, Issue , 2004, Pages 387-395

  Officer, Simon ^a   Prabhu, G Radhakrishna ^a   Pollard, Pat ^a   Hunter, Catherine ^a   Ross, Gary ^b  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NCR Financial Solutions Division   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Microbeads; Online; Rare earth; Security tag

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL WATERMARKING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; HOLOGRAMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FLUORESCENT INKS; MICROBEADS; ONLINE SECURITY SYSTEMS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 8844237499     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.528191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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