About the Presenter:

Dr. Zhigang Fan joined Xerox Corporation Research and Technology in 1988 where he is currently a principal scientist. Dr. Fan’s research interests include various aspects of image processing and recognition. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 technical papers, as well as over 120 patents and pending applications. Dr. Fan is associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

About the Talk:

Security printing is the technology that aims to prevent forgery, tampering, or counterfeiting. Traditionally, security printing protects sensitive paper documents such as banknotes, passports, stock certificates and identity cards. It is often associated with expensive equipment, specially designed media and/or printing material. This was adequate in the past to restrict counterfeiting to the dedicated craftsman with access to a printing press. However, the emerging digital printing technology is changing the dynamics of security printing. In addition to numerous newly invented digital security features, many traditional features now can be implemented with digital technology using conventional equipment and material. Furthermore, the flexibility of digital technology enables variable information embedding at a low cost even at a run length of one, thus creating “individualized security printing”. This talk will discuss the implication of the digital technology on security printing. It will also provide an overview of several digital security printing technologies we have developed in Xerox.

For more information contact Yun Shi shi@njit.edu (973)-596-3501, Alfredo Tan tan@fdu.edu (201) 692-2347, and Hong Man hman@stevens-tech.edu (201)-216-5038.

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