Abstract:
Verification of paper documents is an important part of checking a person's s
identity, authorization for access or simply establishing a trusted currency.
Many documents such as passports or paper bills include holograms or other
view-dependent elements that are difficult to forge and therefore are used to
verify the genuineness of that document. View-dependent elements change their
appearance based both on viewing direction and dominant light sources, thus
it requires special knowledge and training to accurately distinguish original
elements from forgeries. We present an interactive application for mobile
devices that integrates the recognition of the documents with the interactive
verification of view-dependent elements. The system recognizes and tracks the
paper document, provides user guidance for view alignment and presents a
stored image of the element's s appearance depending on the current view of
the document also recording user decisions. We describe how to model and
capture the underlying spatially varying BRDF representation of
view-dependent elements. Furthermore, we evaluate this approach within a user
study and demonstrate that such a setup captures images that are recognizable
and that can be correctly verified.
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