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A Point-Set Compression Heuristic for Fiber-Based Certificates of Authenticity
Snowbird, Utah March 29-March 31
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DCC.2005.9Data Compression Conference (DCC'05)
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Darko Kirovski, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
A certificate of authenticity (COA) is an inexpensive physical object that has a random unique structure with high cost of near-exact reproduction. An additional requirement is that the uniqueness of COA's random structure can be verified using an inexpensive device. Bauder was the first to propose COAs created as a randomized augmentation of a set of fixed-length fibers into a transparent gluing material that randomly fixes once for all the position of the fibers within. Recently, Kirovski showed that linear improvement in the compression ratio of a point-set compression algorithm used to store fibers' location, yields exponential increase in the cost of forging a fiber-based COA instance. To address this issue, in this paper, we introduce a novel, generalized heuristic that compresses M points in an N-dimensional grid with computational complexity proportional to O(M^2 ). We compare its performance with an expected lower bound. The heuristic can be used for numerous other applications such as storage of biometric patterns.
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Darko Kirovski, "A Point-Set Compression Heuristic for Fiber-Based Certificates of Authenticity," dcc, pp.103-112, Data Compression Conference (DCC'05), 2005
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