1) This document provides an agenda and summaries for the "Conference on Optical Security and Counterfeit Deterrence" covering topics like currency security features, substrate and printing techniques, and optical security features. 2) The conference includes sessions on currency, substrates and printing, optical variable security features, and authentication/examination, with papers from central banks, commercial firms, and researchers. 3) A short course on optically variable devices is also provided to give attendees an understanding of the fundamentals, types, and applications of OVD security features.

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4. Optical
Document
Security
The Conference on Optical
Security and Counterfeit
Deterrence
18-20 January 2012
Palace Hotel,
San Francisco, California
Good conference - covers My first attendance, a Excellent conference – Very good conference!
a broad spectrum. very fascinating lots of useful information. Douglas Dunn,
Armin Stoeckli, BEB experience, well worth Ernesto Candela, 3M
Industrie-Elektronik the time. Banco de Mexico
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5. Optical Document Security
Optical Document Security
Who Should The conference on Optical Security and
Attend Counterfeit Deterrence Techniques since
This conference will 1996
provide information, insight This is being written a few days before the tenth anniversary of “9/11”, a salutary
and guidance on future reminder of why we need secure documents that are difficult to copy or alter. The
developments to… threat of document fraud, especially pertaining to banknotes and identity
documents, drives research and development around the world to find protective
features which are more difficult to counterfeit or compromise in other ways. New
ideas, new products and new features are emerging from government research
• Specifiers and designers centers, corporate research and development programs and centers of academic
of banknotes, ID excellence.
documents, tax For over 25 years a key focus of document security has been optical features, and
documents and other for over half that period this Conference has offered a platform to researchers,
secured government- developers, manufacturers, printers and governments to present their findings on
such features at a high technical and scientific level. Some of the most significant
issued documents developments in document security have been first published at these conferences
so we are pleased to see this continuing at the 2012 Conference.
Inevitably and rightly this Conference evolves in its content – to reflect the
• Specifiers and designers evolution in the topic – but also in its management. All previous conferences were
of commercial or private chaired by Rudolf van Renesse, who among his many achievements in this field
coined the phrase “Optical Document Security”, and literally wrote the book on the
sector secured
subject. Unfortunately, he became ill during the early planning of this 2012
documents, including Conference, forcing him to relinquish the Chair and take a back seat, although he
those issued by banks has continued to make valuable contributions to the Conference Committee’s
appraisal of the record number of abstracts. John Mercer has taken on the
and financial institutions,
demanding task of Conference Chairman and the Conference Committee has
educational institutions, worked hard to ensure that Ruud’s high standards are being maintained.
retailers, transportation
companies, concert and THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM
sports events promoters • Currency - Banknotes are a prime target of criminals so require much effort to
ensure their security. So as always, the first conference sessions are devoted to
currency protection. This includes presentations from central banks and banknote
production equipment producers, covering the vital topics of banknote wear,
• Specifiers and designers fitness, machine readability, and counterfeiting trends.
of personnel access and • Substrates and Printing - Substrates and print elements form the backbone of
identity documents document security, so these inseparable components form the second group of
conference sessions. There has perhaps never been so much work done on
substrates, and these sessions see reports on new banknote and ID substrates, as
well as new features in inks and print techniques.
• Producers and suppliers
of security-printed • Optically Variable Security - OVDs are at the center of optical document security
and form the core of this Conference. New holographic and other materials and
documents methods are challenging the to-date ubiquitous surface-relief features, and these
are reported in these sessions, with papers also on methods for combining OVDs
with other facets of document security. The conference shows that researchers in
• Producers and suppliers this field continue to be inventive and imaginative.
of components for • Authentication and Examination - The most advanced and sophisticated security
security-printed features are wasted if they are not properly examined. So the final sessions of the
2012 Optical Document Security conference consider issues and methods for
documents examining and authenticating optical features, from forensic examination processes
to the potential role of mobile phones.
At the end of the first conference day all participants are invited to view the items
• Researchers in the being discussed in the conference and to read the poster papers, with food and
security component, drink encouraging discourse and discussion with fellow delegates. This Security
Exhibit and Poster Presentation is always popular and has often included the first
biometrics and security
opportunity to see, handle and examine the new developments that may become
printing fields. the future cornerstone of optical document security.
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Conference Programme
Short Course on Optically Variable Devices
Presenters: Hans de Heij, De Nederlandsche Bank; John Mercer, Kelly, Anderson & Associates
Wednesday 18 January 2012 - 1:30 to 5:00 pm
Security features for public use are based on both human For the first time this Course has two presenters to specialize in
perception and advanced technology. The basic technical OVDs for banknotes and for ID documents.
principles behind public security features – or level 1 features – Hans de Heij has presented several well-
have their origin in sciences like physics, chemistry and regarded papers at the ODS conferences. Since
mathematics. Applied design is another discipline needed to 1981 he has worked on banknote design and
create optimal security features. Traditional watermarks, in use public awareness at the Netherlands National
for hundreds of years, are still applied and on the other hand Bank, first on Guilders and then Euros, to which
the latest optical devices using micro-optical films, liquid he has made a significant contribution in both the
crystals and other types of devices are available. Today over 60 design and the managing of the design process. Hans will lead
different public security features available. How do you select the Course on OVDs for banknotes.
the most appropriate for your documents? John Mercer has also presented papers at ODS
Many public security features have their basis in optics. The conferences. He worked at the US Bureau of
focus of this course will be on Optically Variable Devices (OVDs), Engraving and Printing before moving to the State
which are a major group of public security features. There are Department in 1994, where he led the design
now many types and varieties of OVD, each of them having their teams for the present US Visa and the first US
own characteristics and suitability for use on different types of ePassport From 1997 to 2004, he chaired ICAO’s
document. So it is important for everyone involved in the Document Content and Format Working Group which led the
specification, design, production or examination of secured work on the specification of technical features for international
documents to have a good understanding of the fundamentals travel documents,and he remains closely involved with this
of OVDs. Providing that understanding is the purpose of this activity. John will lead the Course on OVDs for Identity
Short Course. Documents.
The Course will survey all kinds of OVD, discussing how they
might be compromised and how to recognize such fraudulent WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
efforts. The course uses image material and case-studies to This course will benefit everyone involved in the specification,
engage and inform participants. Optimum functionality of these design, production and examination of valuable documents,
devices can only be achieved through an appreciation of their whether management or technical personnel. No prior
design, production, application and examination and this is what experience in document security is required.
will be delivered in this Short Course.
Thursday 19 January 2012 9.05 am The Evolution of Optical Currency Sensors used
on Federal Reserve High Speed Sorting
Session 1: Sarah Atwater, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, USA
CURRENCY I The US Federal Reserve System provides both new and
circulated currency to financial institutions. Circulated
SESSION CHAIR: Sara Church – Federal Reserve Board, USA currency was originally sorted by hand, but now done by
8:15 am Research into Banknote Circulation Wear: Cash machine at 40 notes per second. Old fitness criteria are
Handling Habits of Canadians being replaced by new, as the very nature of currency is
Erik Balodis, Bank of Canada, Canada changed through new designs and security features. This
The security-driven development of a new note series paper describes the issues and asks which security
can result in banknote configurations with novel security features are to be verified.
devices or materials. The lack of a reliable durability test
based on real circulation stresses makes it difficult to 9.30 am Dynamic Effect Pigments and Multi-Effect
estimate the ability of these devices or materials to Pigments for the Banknote Industry
withstand circulation conditions. This paper presents the Elizabeth Downing. 3DTL, USA/Switzerland
findings of a survey of the cash-handling habits of Dynamic Effect Pigments (DEPs) and Multi-Effect
Canadians and incorporates these findings, and other Pigments (MEPs) represent a new class of security
information in the development of a model of bank note pigments for banknotes and other documents. DEPs and
circulation. MEPs can be tailor-made to provide multiple responses
under a single, steady-state excitation. These responses
8.40 am Controlling Machine Readability in Security can be simultaneous, sequential, and/or interdependent.
Printing These pigments can provide both visual and non-visual
Thomas Tuerke & Juerg Hofmann, KBA-Notasys SA, Switzerland effects, and they can respond to visible and non-visible
Following one of the basic principles of quality control, stimuli
that you can only control what you can measure, in this
9.55 am Refreshment Break 35 minutes
paper some tools and methods especially developed for
the banknote world are presented to control these covert
features in sheet form.
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7. SESSION 2: personalisation of PC documents. This also means that
a PC-foil with a single image has to be treated like a
CURRENCY II fully personalised document, which is facilitated by the
SESSION CHAIR: Malcolm R. M. Knight - De La Rue use of new polycarbonate inks that allow secure
International Ltd., UK
bonding. Improvements to the inks, the inkjet printer as
10.30 am US Cash Machine Group: Efforts to Make well as the printing process were required to optimise
Banknotes More Friendly performance.
Valentino de Vito, Bureau of Engraving & Printing, USA
The subject group was formed by the US Federal 2.15 pm A New Banknote Substrate as Platform for
Reserve Board of Governors to examine ways to make Optical Security Features
banknotes more machine readable. Banknote design Christoph Kocher, Landqart, Switzerland
today is not just making aesthetically pleasing and A new banknote substrate will be presented that
complex images, but a matter of integrating design and combines the recognized features of paper and polymer
security concepts that are workable, reliable, secure, into a high security delivery platform. The substrate is a
and machine friendly, with the goal of making readable composite of two paper layers and a central polymer
banknotes for all. core and is capable of incorporating the traditional
physical security features of both paper and polymer.
10.55 am Bank Machine Learning to Measure Banknote The presentation will focus on additional security effects
Fitness not realizable with either substrate alone.
Peter Balke, De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands
Central banks recirculate notes based on fitness. The 2.40 pm Refreshment Break 35 minutes
problem is that fit notes are often shredded along with
unfit ones. This paper is the story of the application of SESSION 4:
neural networks to the whole note color evaluation SUBSTRATE AND PRINTING II
process so that the decision making process is improved
and more economical. SESSION CHAIR: Sijbrand Spannenburg, Joh. Enschedé
Security Print, The Netherlands
11.20 am The Impact Advances in the Printing Industry 3.15 pm Personalized Floating Three-Dimensional
have had on the Counterfeiting of US Currency Images for ID Documents
Kerre Corbin, United States Secret Service Investigative Douglas Dunn, 3M, USA
Division, USA It is now possible to produce three-dimensional images
Digital printing is a curse, because counterfeit notes are in the form of a floating signature, a floating serial
more deceptive, but also a blessing, as the higher number, or a floating ghost image of the document
fidelity allows surer analysis of the detected holder in a patch layout in the document. In addition,
counterfeits. Fraud methodology will be discussed and three-dimensional floating images that are viewable
illustrated. The need for more and improved security only over a specific angular range but appear to be
features is indicated. located at the same spot in the document, i.e.
switchable, can also be laser written. In this new
11.45 am Lunch 75 minutes version of the technology the three-dimensional
images are therefore linked to the bio-data recorded in
SESSION 3: the document of the document holder, a process
described in this paper.
SUBSTRATE & PRINTING I
SESSION CHAIR:Volker Lohweg - Ostwestfalen-Lippe University 3.40 pm Micro-Optic Structures for Identification
of Applied Sciences, Germany Applications
1.00 pm Differentiation Between Film Substrates Based Scott Palm & Sam Cape, Crane Micro-Optic Solutions, USA
on Altered Interference Signals In this paper, the authors discuss a number of
Robert Stewart & Michael Blesovsky, Innovia Films, UK interesting technical, scientific, and stylistic
developments undertaken to tailor micro-optic
A combination of white light interferometry and
birefringence measurement has been used as a method of products, as now used in several banknotes, to the
uniquely identifying polypropylene film. This present performance requirements for a number of security
paper extends this technique to new grades of security applications. These developments improve the
films. functionality, appearance, and effectiveness of micro-
optics. Developments for traditional applications and for
1.25 pm Laser Engravable Color Reflective Films new applications, such as ID, are discussed.
Will Merrill 3M, USA
4.05 pm Inspection Techniques for Hybrid Substrate
This paper describes the method and use of a new class Using Optical Coherence Technology (OCT)
of multi-layer, color reflective polymer films, susceptible
Takaharu Kobayashi, National Printing Bureau of Japan
to laser energy, that allows lasers of various
wavelengths to write to inner layers in the film. Overt OCT is a non-destructive imaging technique for use with
features using visible colors and covert features of other an opaque medium with some element of optical
wavelengths may be incorporated. transparency. This technique has proven useful in
determining the thickness of component layers of hybrid
1.50 pm A Secure Color Personalization Solution for PC substrate and can also be applied to quality control in
Documents the production process.
Oliver Muth, Bundesdruckerei, Germany 4.30 pm Reversible Magnets: Creating a Printable
This process uses inkjet printing of an inner layer of a Magnetic Display
PC foil followed by lamination to a card. So this is a pre- Christoph Mengel, Giesecke & Devrient, Germany
personalisation instead of the commonly used post-
Magnetic inks are staples of banknote printing, from
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simple iron oxide inks, to more sophisticated optical- 9.05 am Nano-Scale Optics for Security Features
magnetic combinations. These inks generate fixed Clint Landrock, NanoTech Security Corp., Canada
orientation magnetic pigments. In contrast, the This paper introduces the design of surface plasmon-
approach described in this paper allows the magnetic
based optics and novel processing using mastered
particles to rotate freely within the cured magnetic ink,
shims for embossing or casting highly reproducible
so that the imparted magnetic image will be revealed in
nano-scale structures in diffraction optical variable
a magnetic field, but revert on removal from the field,
devices (D-OVD)and machine readable security
thus demonstrating full reversibility.
applications. Surface plasmons (SPs) are collective
7.00-
electronic oscillations that can be excited using visible
10.00 pm Buffet Dinner including Table Top Exhibit and
ambient light. If the correct parameters are chosen SPs
Poster Papers can be used to produce transmission of light greater
than that predicted by standard optical theory.
Thursday 19 January 2012
9.30 am Some New Approaches on Optical Document
7.00 pm EVENING PROGRAM Security
Conference Buffet Dinner Tino Zahedi, 4D, Germany
This paper presents a number of novel authentication
Topical Table-top Exhibits
concepts based on innovative and unconventional
Poster Papers functional principles. The optical effects comprise a
This is always a popular and busy part of Optical photoluminescent phenomenon such as daylight
Document Security. The poster papers complement the fluorescence, micro-Fresnel prism refraction light
conference presentations with information on projects that guidance and dramatic three-dimensional optical
are not suitable for an oral paper, perhaps because the illusions.
content is brief or the project is at an early stage of
development. 9.55 am Refreshment Break 35 minutes
The table-top exhibits provides the opportunity to see,
handle and discuss what is being presented in the SESSION 6:
conference oral and poster papers. There is no substitute
for a close up look – no matter how sophisticated the
OPTICALLY VARIABLE SECURITY II
visual presentation in the conference! SESSION CHAIR: Douglas S. Dunn, 3M Safety, Security, &
Protection Services Lab, USA
Add in the food and drink and this becomes an unrivalled
networking session: meet old friends, make new ones,
10.30 am Pastel, non-rainbow colored OVD based on
establish new development or business partners. diffraction optics
Akira Nagano, Toppan Printing, Japan
Contact Reconnaissance if you would like to show your This paper introduces pastel-color OVDs which do not
product in this table-top exhibit - info@Reconnaissance- generate the normal rainbow colors typical of normal
Intl.com. diffraction holograms. Further, these pastel OVDs have
10.00 pm Close of First Day the property of On/Off effect: that is at one viewing
angle, the pastel color is shown, and changing the
viewing angle causes the complete disappearance of the
pastel color. Secondary latent images are also possible.
Friday 20 January 2012 The pastel pattern changes to a monochromatic one by
SESSION 5: a diffusion filter and the latent image becomes clearly
visible.
OPTICALLY VARIABLE DEVICES I
SESSION CHAIR: Wayne R. Tompkin - OVD Kinegram Corp, 10.55 am Color Shifting Feature combining
Switzerland microstructures with Fabry-Perot-type
Interference Filters
8.15 am Enhancing the Security of Chip-Based
Harald Walter & Wayne Tompkin, OVD Kinegram AG,
documents using DOVIDs
Switzerland
John Peters & Wayne Tompkin, OVD Kinegram, Switzerland
This paper presents novel, enhanced color-shifting
The paper provides a brief analysis of the potential
features based on Fabry-Perot interference filters in
attacks on currently used chip-based ID documents,
juxtaposition. The effect relies on a combination of
such as the machine-readable travel documents. In the
light of these threats, three approaches to enhancing special designed microstructures and thin-film
the document security using DOVIDs will be presented. interference filters. This feature offers a very high level
of security due to the fact that replication, printing and
8.40 am Extraordinary transmission for an Effective See- vacuum coating techniques need to be combined in a
through DOVID very accurate way.
Jean Sauvage-Vincent & Valéry Petiton, Hologram Industries, 11.20 am Full Color Lippmann Hologram for Security
France
Applications
Known for a long time in polymer banknotes, and more
recently in paper banknotes, the principle of windowed Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Dai Nippon Printing, Japan
documents is now extended to ID documents. This In this paper, the overt authentication functionality of
paper will present an innovative solution linking new color Lippmann holograms is discussed, targeting
transmission and zero-order device technologies which the high security application such as banknotes and
is dedicated to improve windows’ contributions to overt governmental ID documents. One authentication
security. function is the instantaneous color switching possible in
holograms made by the H1H2 mastering method, when
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Friday 20 January 2012 cont’d...
AUTHENTICATION & EXAMINATION II
both the incident and the observation angle can be SESSION CHAIR: John Mercer - Kelly, Anderson
freely designed and controlled. Therefore, the 3.15 pm Examining OVDs in Travel Documents:
observation angles of each color images reconstructed Authentication in a Forensic Lab Setting
can be individually designed and a distinctive color John Barnett, US Department of Homeland Security,
switching effect can be given. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Forensic Document
Laboratory, USA
11.45 am The Non-Diffractive Switching Image - a Non-
With the advances in commercial holographic
printed Optically Variable Security Device
technology, deceptive counterfeit OVDs are becoming
Luke Maguire, Reserve Bank of Australia more prevalent. This presentation will provide an
This paper presents the latest developments in overview of counterfeit OVDs seen in a forensic
switching images, which represent a fundamental step- document laboratory and illustrate examples using
change in visual efficacy and counterfeit resistance over scientific instruments of the differences between those
previous embodiments. The key development is the counterfeits and genuine OVDs.
creation of a feature that now switches completely,
without cross-talk, between two transparent, high 3.40pm Mobile Devices for Banknote Authentication – Is
contrast images. The visual effect is created through it Possible?
the incorporation of optical-quality microprisms into the Volker Lohweg, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied
banknote substrate. Sciences, Germany
12.10 pm Lunch 75 minutes Security features, in particular intaglio-printed features,
exhibit highly characteristic, recognizable visual
properties. This paper reports research which shows
SESSION 7: that nearly all mobile device cameras, when controlled
AUTHENTICATON & EXAMINATION I properly by the application software, can be used for
SESSION CHAIR: Ian M Lancaster - Reconnaissance banknote authentication.
International 4.05 pm Robust ATM PIN Pad Authentication with Coded
1.25 pm A New Projective Method for Correcting for Features
Distortions of Secure Digital Watermarks Steffen Priesterjahn, Wincor Nixdorf
Hans Oltmans, Joh. Enschedé, The Netherlands The paper is based on an approach that used
Automatic detection of secure digital watermarks relies artificially produced unique features on laser engraved
on the ability to recognize the mark under practical metal structures like PIN pads to generate an encoded
circumstances. A captured image is “distorted” (shifted, fingerprint for object verification. This method has
skewed, scaled, cropped) compared to the original. The been extended to use intrinsic features that are
watermark should be resilient to such distortions. The introduced by production variances. This enables us to
Full Spectrum coding method possesses resilience to detect small changes in the surface of the monitored
certain (conformal) transformations. Generalization to a object to detect manipulations.
more general class of linear distortions is considered. A
technique is developed to determine which operation an 4.30 pm Close of Conference
image has undergone during the capturing process. This
registration method is based on linear projection and is
applicable to a broad class of (frequency-domain)
secure digital watermarks.
1.50 pm A Stereoscopically, Spatially and Angularly Conference
Resolved Characterization Method for DOVIDs Commitee
Mikael Lindstrand, gonioLabs AB, Sweden
Examples of two consecutive DOVID characterizations
are given in this paper, one being rotated in the lateral
plane and in spatial registration with the other, is given, CONFERENCE CHAIR:
with notes on possible further applications. New is that John E. Mercer, Kelly-Anderson & Associates (USA)
measurements are now taken by two angles to also Emeritus Chair: Rudolf van Renesse (The Netherlands)
catch the stereoscopic properties of the DOVID. Also PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
new is that a generalization of the measurement
Sara E. Church, Federal Reserve Board (USA)
principle is presented.
Paul G. Coombs, JDSU Flex Products Group (USA)
2.15 pm Design and Counterfeit Resilience for Some Douglas S. Dunn, 3M Safety, Security, & Protection Services Lab (USA)
Optically Variable Devices
Bruce Hardwick, Astute Protection LLC
Leif Yde, Leif Yde Consulting, Denmark
Malcolm R. M. Knight, De La Rue International Ltd. (UK)
This paper will explain how the design of a number of
well-known features can make the job more difficult for Ian M. Lancaster, Reconnaissance International (UK)
the counterfeiter by making use of a knowledge of the Volker Lohweg, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences
limitations of materials and machinery available for a (Germany)
counterfeiter. Communication of the features is an Sijbrand Spannenburg, Joh. Enschedé Security Print (Netherlands)
important part of the security.
Wayne R. Tompkin, OVD Kinegram Corp. (Switzerland)
2.40 pm Refreshment Break 35 minutes Tsuyoshi Uematsu, Research Institute, National Printing Bureau (Japan)
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