Using the Optical Mouse Sensor as a Two-Euro Counterfeit Coin Detector

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Using the Optical Mouse Sensor as a Two-Euro Counterfeit Coin Detector

Marcel Tresanchez , Tomàs Pallejà , Mercè Teixidó and Jordi Palacín *

Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, University of Lleida, Jaume II, 69, 25001 Lleida, Spain

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Received: 7 August 2009; in revised form: 20 August 2009 / Accepted: 21 August 2009 / Published: 4 September 2009

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain)

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Abstract: In this paper, the sensor of an optical mouse is presented as a counterfeit coin detector applied to the two-Euro case. The detection process is based on the short distance image acquisition capabilities of the optical mouse sensor where partial images of the coin under analysis are compared with some partial reference coin images for matching. Results show that, using only the vision sense, the counterfeit acceptance and rejection rates are very similar to those of a trained user and better than those of an untrained user.

Keywords: optical sensor; optical mouse sensor; vision based counterfeit

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Tresanchez, M.; Pallejà, T.; Teixidó, M.; Palacín, J. Using the Optical Mouse Sensor as a Two-Euro Counterfeit Coin Detector. Sensors 2009, 9, 7083-7096.

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Tresanchez M., Pallejà T., Teixidó M., Palacín J. Using the Optical Mouse Sensor as a Two-Euro Counterfeit Coin Detector. Sensors. 2009; 9(9):7083-7096.

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Tresanchez, Marcel; Pallejà, Tomàs; Teixidó, Mercè; Palacín, Jordi. 2009. "Using the Optical Mouse Sensor as a Two-Euro Counterfeit Coin Detector." Sensors 9, no. 9: 7083-7096.

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