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Counterfeit Money Detection Algorithm using Non-Local Mean Value and Support Vector Machine Classifier (비지역적 특징값과 서포트 벡터 머신 분류기를 이용한 위변조 지폐 판별 알고리즘)

  • Ji, Sang-Keun;Lee, Hae-Yeoun
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2013
  • Due to the popularization of digital high-performance capturing equipments and the emergence of powerful image-editing softwares, it is easy for anyone to make a high-quality counterfeit money. However, the probability of detecting a counterfeit money to the general public is extremely low. In this paper, we propose a counterfeit money detection algorithm using a general purpose scanner. This algorithm determines counterfeit money based on the different features in the printing process. After the non-local mean value is used to analyze the noises from each money, we extract statistical features from these noises by calculating a gray level co-occurrence matrix. Then, these features are applied to train and test the support vector machine classifier for identifying either original or counterfeit money. In the experiment, we use total 324 images of original money and counterfeit money. Also, we compare with noise features from previous researches using wiener filter and discrete wavelet transform. The accuracy of the algorithm for identifying counterfeit money was over 94%. Also, the accuracy for identifying the printing source was over 93%. The presented algorithm performs better than previous researches.

Why Genuine Luxury Brands Are Consumed? Counterfeits? Examining Consumer Identification

  • Suh, Hyunsuk
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.69-102
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    • 2012
  • Owing to increased number of luxury brand users, both genuine and counterfeit luxury product consumption continues to increase every year. Luxury brand is defined as use or display of a particular branded products which brings the ownership prestige apart from its functional utility(Grossmand and Shapiro 1988). Some luxury brands have imitations sold in marketplace due to their popularity. These imitations or counterfeits have been jumping on the bandwagon of the upturn in sales of their originals. The purpose of our study is to understand consumer's underlying motives to consume luxury brands, genuine and or counterfeits. To do this, we propose functional theories of attitudes, decision-making styles, and life attitudes to form the determining causes for different consumption choices of luxury brands: genuine brands, counterfeit brands, both genuine and counterfeit brands, and no consumption on luxury brands types. In proposed causal pathways, we examine moderated effects of socio-psychological factors to further investigate if consumer profiles would exert influences in causal relationships. From the existing theories of functional attitudes: value-expressive and social-adjustive attitudes, we developed and introduced a new measure of rationality-consumptive attitude. From the existing eight decision-making characteristics of consumer styles inventory(CSI), three measures of high-quality, hedonic-shopping, and price-shopping styles were primarily applied in the study along with newly introduced measure of 'high-price' being added, which makes four total. Seven life attitude measures of life purpose, life control, will to meaning, goal seeking, future mean to fulfill, life satisfaction, and religiosity were applied. Finally, such socio-psychological measures as age, gender, marital status, income, and age-gap between couples were assumed to function as moderators. With 430 valid study samples, ages from 20s to 50s, with more females(316) than males(114), with average personal possessions of 5 genuine and 9 counterfeit luxury brands, we conducted questionnaire survey. Results indicated that social-adjustive function is totally disappeared in the relationship due to current social trend of widespread consumptions on both genuine and counterfeit brands which in turn, make consumers feel less special on wearing or carrying them unlike in the past. Self-expressive function and rationality-consumptive functions act as strong catalysts for genuine brand consumption and counterfeit brand consumption, respectively. On consumers' decision-making styles, high-price sublation is the most powerful indicator anticipating counterfeit consumption, even more powerful than personal incomes. In life attitude, the overall model fit was not validated, and only life control and life satisfaction are proven to be significant on both genuine and counterfeit product consumptions. Employment of socio-psychological factors in the model improved understanding of users further. Young consumers tend to go for genuine products over counterfeits. Consumers in different income groups; low, medium and high, all significantly consume genuine products for reasons of different decision-making styles. The results indicated that consumers whose personal disposition is predisposed to consume products in the form of reflection of his or her personality, go only for genuine brands for quality reason, while consumers who rationally consume products for its function or usability, go only for counterfeits for high-price sublation reason. Meanwhile, both product users support for high-price orientation who are not well off.

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Research on actual condition and education of fashion major college students on fashion design copyright (패션전공 대학생의 디자인권 실태 및 교육에 관한 연구)

  • Rhee, YoungJu
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in perception and attitude of fashion major college students before and after receiving their design copyright education. A questionnaire survey was distributed to 200 fashion major college students in Seoul. The results of this study were as follows: First, 46.0% of fashion major students had an experience of purchasing counterfeit fashion goods. Out of those, 81.5% students acknowledged that the product was counterfeit and still purchased it. Categories of counterfeit goods purchased were bags, clothes, and accessories, in order of popularity. The students reported purchasing counterfeit goods twice and three times, in order of popularity. The prices of the counterfeit products were 100,000 to under 200,000 won, and under 100,000 won, in order of popularity. Second, the cognitive domain, the practical domain, and the value domain all showed significant differences between before and after the copyright education. Among these, the differences in the practical domain were the most distinctive. Third, prior to receiving their copyright education, most of the students had no perception about the design copyright system and so most of the students gained helpful information from the education. For future design copyright education, the students want to learn about how to protect their own designs, how to apply copyright in a fashion company, how to avoid invading other people's designs, and categories of design copyright.

Counterfeit Detection Using Characterization of Safety Feature on Banknote with Full-field Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Choi, Woo-June;Min, Gi-Hyeon;Lee, Byeong-Ha;Eom, Jong-Hyun;Kim, Ju-Wan
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.316-320
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    • 2010
  • We report an application of full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) for identifying counterfeit bank notes. The depth-resolved imaging capability of FF-OCT was used for tomographic identification of superficially-identical objects. By retrieving the internal structures of the security feature (cash hologram) of an original banknote, we could demonstrate the feasibility of FF-OCT to identify counterfeit money. The FF-OCT images showed that the hologram consisted of micron scale multi-coated layers including an air gap. Therefore, it is expected that FF-OCT has potential as a new non-invasive tool to discern imitation of currency, and it would find applications in a wide field of counterfeit sciences.

Image Management and Luxury Goods in Korean Society: A Cultural Sociological Perspective (문화사회학적 시각에서 본 한국사회에서의 명품의 인상관리적 효과)

  • Choi, Set-Byol;Jin, Ki-Nam
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.672-678
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    • 2006
  • This study examines the implications of fashion in self-expression or image management among college students in Korea. Socio-demographic factors are considered in addressing following research questions: why Korean college students seek luxury goods; how they recognize the effects of using luxury goods on their image management; whether or not they have purchased counterfeit luxury goods; and why they buy counterfeit goods. In order to explain the relationship between fashion and social class, the study examines various sociological theories including Erving Goffman's dramaturgical approach. The data were drawn from 1419 students from 10 universities nationwide in 2005. Chi-square analyses yields outcomes as follows: Using luxury goods works as a class symbol that gives the users the image of higher socio-economic background; use of counterfeit luxury goods and its symbolic effects in image management do not have significant relationship with socio-economic background.

A Study of the Detecting Method about the Identification Card's Counterfeit, Modification and Illegal Use by Minors (미성년자의 신분증 위·변조 및 도용을 검출하기 위한 방법 연구)

  • Lee, Younggyo;Ahn, Jeonghee
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.87-101
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    • 2018
  • Minors' law evasion is getting serious. Some of them make a fake ID card or use a stolen ID card illegally. They are illegally used for buying alcohol, cigarette, bond or going to club, pub, motel and so on. On the latest News, there was a case that teens rented a car with a driver licence without checking and had severe car accident. Like this case, car rental service was fined and suspended from business because they did not figure out ID card's counterfeit or modification. Thus, this study investigates the detecting method about the ID card(including a driver license) counterfeit, modification or illegal use. The server has a database of 17~19's minors one fingerprint and services whether the visitor is adult true or not. The method will be usable and economical for business. Then, it was compared and analyzed with methods already in use in business.

Implementation of a Counterfeit Notes Detection Method using IR Sensor (적외선(IR) 센서를 이용한 위폐 감별 방법 구현)

  • Kim, Sun-Gu;Kang, Byeong-Gwon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.8
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    • pp.191-197
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we implemented a paper currency recognition system using IR(infrared) sensor. The system has 32 channel IR sensor to measure the reflection and penetration quantity of light. The IR image of paper currency of 10-bit gray scale is used to differentiate the real and counterfeit paper currency with image information from 0 to 4095. The characteristics of IR image are recognized by brightness and darkness and the positions of bright and dark portions are different between real and counterfeit paper currency. The price of IR sensors were relatively high, however, it is good price in these days due to mass production to apply to counterfeit detection area. We used a software table having the IR characteristics of real paper currency to compare with the IR images of the input paper currency. The performance of the implemented system shows 1-2% error rates for Euro real paper currency and 0% error rates for various counterfeit paper currencies of several countries.

Counterfeit Money Detection Algorithm based on Morphological Features of Color Printed Images and Supervised Learning Model Classifier (컬러 프린터 영상의 모폴로지 특징과 지도 학습 모델 분류기를 활용한 위변조 지폐 판별 알고리즘)

  • Woo, Qui-Hee;Lee, Hae-Yeoun
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.2 no.12
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    • pp.889-898
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    • 2013
  • Due to the popularization of high-performance capturing equipments and the emergence of powerful image-editing softwares, it is easy to make high-quality counterfeit money. However, the probability of detecting counterfeit money to the general public is extremely low and the detection device is expensive. In this paper, a counterfeit money detection algorithm using a general purpose scanner and computer system is proposed. First, the printing features of color printers are calculated using morphological operations and gray-level co-occurrence matrix. Then, these features are used to train a support vector machine classifier. This trained classifier is applied for identifying either original or counterfeit money. In the experiment, we measured the detection rate between the original and counterfeit money. Also, the printing source was identified. The proposed algorithm was compared with the algorithm using wiener filter to identify color printing source. The accuracy for identifying counterfeit money was 91.92%. The accuracy for identifying the printing source was over 94.5%. The results support that the proposed algorithm performs better than previous researches.

A Qualitative Study on Risk Reduction Behaviors in Purchase Process of the Counterfeit of Fashion Luxury Brands - Focused on Risk Reduction Behaviors on Psychological Risk Perceptions -

  • Kim, Il
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.22-36
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    • 2005
  • This research is to classify psychological risk perceptions in purchases process at counterfeit at fashion luxury brands, into a risk perception on purchase activity itself and a risk perception on the post-purchase situation, and to analyze types and characteristics at risk reduction behaviors to reduce each risk perception. In this research a qualitative method was employed, and research-related data were collected and analyzed through in-depth interviews. Results were shown that risk reduction behaviors at psychological risk perception on purchase activity itself included rationalization of purchase, accompanied purchase, reduction and discontinuance of purchase, and that risk reduction behaviors of psychological risk perception on the post-purchase situation included information search, establishment of selection criteria, establishment of marginal limit, selective purchase, planned and compared purchase, and reduction and discontinuance of purchase. Previous researches suggested brand loyalty, selection of famous brands, utilization of information agents by marketers, pre-purchase usage and guaranteed purchase, but these risk reduction methods were not utilized, this probably being interpreted as a result of characteristics of counterfeit. In addition, risk reduction behavior of one type tended to reduce risk perception of several other types, and risk reduction behaviors of various types were utilized to reduce a certain type's risk perception. Not only types of risk perception but also levels of risk perception appeared to have exerted influence to risk reduction behaviors.

A Code Authentication System of Counterfeit Printed Image Using Multiple Comparison Measures (다중 비교척도에 의한 영상 인쇄물 위조 감식 시스템)

  • Choi, Do-young;Kim, Jin-soo
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2018
  • Currently, a large amount of printed matter associated with code authentication method are diffused widely, however, they have been reproduced with great precision and distributed successively in illegal ways. In this paper, we propose an efficient code authentication method which classifies authentic or counterfeit with smart-phone, effectively. The proposed method stores original image code in the server side and then extracts multiple comparison measures describing the original image. Based on these multiple measures, a code authentication algorithm is designed in such a way that counterfeit printed images may be effectively classified and then the recognition rate may be highly improved. Through real experiments, it is shown that the proposed method can improve the recognition rate greatly and lower the mis-recognition rate, compared with single measure method.