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Keesing Journal 37
Editorial:
Security: Who pays? Who cares?
Design:
The golden harmony of Fibonacci
Striking a fine balance in banknote design
Geberal interest:
Protecting intellectual property
Multimodal biometric...
Keesing Journal 38
Innovation:
Palm vein authenticaton and its applications
High accuracy biometric authentication
General interest:
Defining ID cards with ISO/IEC 24789
A new durability standard for the...
Keesing Journal 39
General interest:
Image production for identity documents
Why achieving optimal image quality is not as easy as it seems
Cases analysed:
Biocryptography
Increasing the protection...
Selection of biometric electoral enrolment systems
The issue of electoral integrity is one that plagues election commissions worldwide, from developed democracies such as the United States of America to rising...
New initiative to support document examination
To ensure that both frontline immigration and border control officers and document examiners can carry out their important responsibilities, the need for continuing support...
Secure colour personalisation
Due to the global use of electronic identity documents, conventional paper documents are increasingly being replaced by modern polymer cards. For these cards, polycarbonate...
Optical effect of novel structural colour OVD
Optically variable devices (OVDs) display special visual effects such as colour-shifting and image-shifting representation. OVDs which are composed of microscopic structures are quite different...
Transliteration of Arabic in MRTDs
ICAO specifies that when a name is “in a national language that does not use the Latin alphabet,
a transliteration shall also be provided.” Although...
An introduction to the Biometrics Constitution
Although we have been employing the concept of biometrics in relation to identity verification for a very long time, many people still perceive biometrics...
Palm vein authentication systems and its applications
In recent years, biometric authentication technologies have been widely deployed as a means to verify an individual's identity to prevent information leaks or identity...
In the News: Cyberattacks on Water Systems Across the US [Updated]
This week CBS reported that American Water Works, a supplier of drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people, said hackers...
Venezuela’s New 200- and 500-Bolívar (Digital) Banknotes
Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) has added two new denominations to its modern Bolívar (Digital) banknote series: the 200- and 500-bolívar (digital) banknotes were...
Legal Identity and Data Protection in Modern Societies
In advance of United Nations Day (October 24), we bring you the following blog post from the United Nations Development Programme. It was originally...
ADA-Compliant Mobile ID App Raises the Bar on Accessibility
Editor’s note: PR Newswire released the following press release on September 26. 2024.
IDEMIA Public Security, the leading provider of convenient and trusted biometric-based solutions, reinforces...
Advanced Generative AI: The Latent Diffusion Model
To conclude his series on advanced Generative AI topics, Ravi Das explores the Latent Diffusion Model—how it works and the advantages it offers.
The “Latent...