A Novel Porcelain Fingerprinting Technique

Abstract

Porcelain, as a significant cultural heritage, embodies the wisdom of human civilization. However, existing anti-counterfeiting and authentication technologies for porcelain are often unreliable and costly. This paper proposes a physical unclonable functions (PUF) design based on crack physical feature extraction for the anti-counterfeiting and authentication of Gold-Wire porcelain. The proposed method generates PUF information by extracting inherent physical deviations in the surface cracks of Gold-Wire porcelain. First, a standard crack extraction process is established using digital image processing to obtain crack information from the porcelain surface. Then, a physical feature extraction model based on the chain code encoding technique and the Delaunay triangulation technique is used to derive the physical feature values from the cracks. Subsequently, a PUF encoding algorithm is designed to convert these physical feature values into a PUF response. Finally, the security and reliability of the designed PUF are evaluated, and a PUF-based porcelain authentication protocol is developed. Experimental results show that the proposed PUF exhibits 50.16% uniqueness and 98.85% reliability, and the PUF data successfully passed the NIST randomness test, demonstrating that the proposed technology can effectively achieve low-cost, high-reliability anti-counterfeiting for commercial porcelain.