Physical Object Authentication

Securely authenticating objects in the physical world into the digital world

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Our centre seeks to develop robust and reliable authentication systems for entities in the real-world environment. The primary focus is understanding the distinctive traits that make unique an entity in the physical world and exploring the feasibility of creating reliable machine learning systems that can authenticate entities using only pictures from a smartphone camera.

January 2024

Physical Object Authentication

How to protect documents through the whole life-cycle?

For a long time, physical paper has been one of the main ways to store information. Nevertheless, given a paper document, it has always been a challenge to verify that its content is legit. To address this, some primitive solutions were used, like official signatures or stamps that certify the document’s authenticity. Notice that these elements do not ensure that the paper’s content has not been modified after it was issued.

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