Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication

Nowadays mobile phones include quality photo and video cameras, access to wireless networks and the internet, GPS assistance and other innovative systems. These facilities open them to innovative uses, other than the classical telephonic communication one. Smartphones are a more sophisticated versio...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo, Lorenzo Cozzella, Donato Papalillo
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/5/8217
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author Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo
Lorenzo Cozzella
Donato Papalillo
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Donato Papalillo
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description Nowadays mobile phones include quality photo and video cameras, access to wireless networks and the internet, GPS assistance and other innovative systems. These facilities open them to innovative uses, other than the classical telephonic communication one. Smartphones are a more sophisticated version of classic mobile phones, which have advanced computing power, memory and connectivity. Because fake lithographs are flooding the art market, in this work, we propose a smartphone as simple, robust and efficient sensor for lithograph authentication. When we buy an artwork object, the seller issues a certificate of authenticity, which contains specific details about the artwork itself. Unscrupulous sellers can duplicate the classic certificates of authenticity, and then use them to “authenticate” non-genuine works of art. In this way, the buyer will have a copy of an original certificate to attest that the “not original artwork” is an original one. A solution for this problem would be to insert a system that links together the certificate and the related specific artwork. To do this it is necessary, for a single artwork, to find unique, unrepeatable, and unchangeable characteristics. In this article we propose an innovative method for the authentication of stone lithographs. We use the color spots distribution captured by means of a smartphone camera as a non-cloneable texture of the specific artworks and an information management system for verifying it in mobility stone lithography.
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spelling doaj.art-f777ac0f6a3644d392d8ed14b2d909b72022-12-22T03:19:19ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202014-05-011458217823410.3390/s140508217s140508217Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography AuthenticationGiuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo0Lorenzo Cozzella1Donato Papalillo2Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, ItalyDipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, ItalyDipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, ItalyNowadays mobile phones include quality photo and video cameras, access to wireless networks and the internet, GPS assistance and other innovative systems. These facilities open them to innovative uses, other than the classical telephonic communication one. Smartphones are a more sophisticated version of classic mobile phones, which have advanced computing power, memory and connectivity. Because fake lithographs are flooding the art market, in this work, we propose a smartphone as simple, robust and efficient sensor for lithograph authentication. When we buy an artwork object, the seller issues a certificate of authenticity, which contains specific details about the artwork itself. Unscrupulous sellers can duplicate the classic certificates of authenticity, and then use them to “authenticate” non-genuine works of art. In this way, the buyer will have a copy of an original certificate to attest that the “not original artwork” is an original one. A solution for this problem would be to insert a system that links together the certificate and the related specific artwork. To do this it is necessary, for a single artwork, to find unique, unrepeatable, and unchangeable characteristics. In this article we propose an innovative method for the authentication of stone lithographs. We use the color spots distribution captured by means of a smartphone camera as a non-cloneable texture of the specific artworks and an information management system for verifying it in mobility stone lithography.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/5/8217biometryartworks authenticationspeckle metrologydigital image processinglithographysmartphonemobile computing
spellingShingle Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo
Lorenzo Cozzella
Donato Papalillo
Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication
Sensors
biometry
artworks authentication
speckle metrology
digital image processing
lithography
smartphone
mobile computing
title Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication
title_full Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication
title_fullStr Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication
title_full_unstemmed Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication
title_short Smartphone Sensors for Stone Lithography Authentication
title_sort smartphone sensors for stone lithography authentication
topic biometry
artworks authentication
speckle metrology
digital image processing
lithography
smartphone
mobile computing
url http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/5/8217
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