The EU H2020 MSCA IF Project PrintOut
Channel: PrintOut
Date: 07/11/2020

With the extensive range and popularity of physical documents generation devices such as printers and scanners, the establishment of computational techniques to find manipulations, detect illegal copies, and even linking documents to their source are useful because (i) finding manipulation can help to detect fake news; (ii) exposing illegal copies can avoid frauds and copyright violation; and (iii) indicating the owner of an illegal document can provide strong arguments to the prosecution of a suspect. With the PrintOut project, we propose to address these problems by using concepts of Computer Science such as Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Information Theory, and Game Theory to work either in the defensive and also in the attacking sides, using for both tasks single pictures as input such as the ones taken by smartphones. Such a project has strong bonds with a document authentication company in Siena, who will work jointly with us in the project and will provide real examples of authentication elements on printed documents, such as the QR-Codes.

Main researcher: Anselmo Ferreira. University of Siena (Italy).

Supervisors: Mauro Barni - University of Siena (Italy) and Slava Voloshynovskiy- University of Geneve (Switzerland). 

Project Website: https://www3.diism.unisi.it/~ferreira/printout/