Digital twins of physical printing-imaging channel
Yury Belousov, Brian Pulfer, Roman Chaban, Joakim Tutt and, Olga Taran, Taras Holotyak, Slava Voloshynovskiy

TL;DR
This paper introduces a flexible, scalable digital twin model for printing-imaging channels using an information-theoretic framework, capable of handling various data types and outperforming existing image translation methods in anti-counterfeiting tasks.
Contribution
The paper proposes a novel digital twin architecture based on Turbo information theory, generalizing multiple state-of-the-art models for printing and imaging applications.
Findings
The model effectively predicts printed CDP from digital templates and vice versa.
It outperforms several existing image-to-image translation methods.
The architecture is adaptable to paired, unpaired, or hybrid data setups.
Abstract
In this paper, we address the problem of modeling a printing-imaging channel built on a machine learning approach a.k.a. digital twin for anti-counterfeiting applications based on copy detection patterns (CDP). The digital twin is formulated on an information-theoretic framework called Turbo that uses variational approximations of mutual information developed for both encoder and decoder in a two-directional information passage. The proposed model generalizes several state-of-the-art architectures such as adversarial autoencoder (AAE), CycleGAN and adversarial latent space autoencoder (ALAE). This model can be applied to any type of printing and imaging and it only requires training data consisting of digital templates or artworks that are sent to a printing device and data acquired by an imaging device. Moreover, these data can be paired, unpaired or hybrid paired-unpaired which makes…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNanofabrication and Lithography Techniques · Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security · Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
MethodsHuMan(Expedia)||How do I get a human at Expedia? · *Communicated@Fast*How Do I Communicate to Expedia? · Batch Normalization · Residual Connection · Instance Normalization · PatchGAN · Residual Block · Tanh Activation · Cycle Consistency Loss · Convolution
