Monthly Archives: October 2012
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...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...
LIVE BLOG: Hawaii launches mobile driver’s license/ID card for Apple devices and more news…
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Kenya Releases an Updated Series of Banknotes
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has made some updates to all denominations of the Kenyan banknotes. All denominations are affected, including the 50...
A Sneak Peek at Indonesia’s New-and-Improved Passport
Indonesia plans to celebrate its 80th Independence Day next year by issuing a redesigned passport to its citizens. The Directorate General of the Ministry...
Optimizing Serialization: Part 4
The first three articles in this series reviewed contemporary security document serial number design strategies related to letterpress printing technology, security inks and font...