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Piracy Detection and Prevention using SIFT based on Earth Moverís Distance (EMD).

by B.Srinivas, Dr.Koduganti Venkata Rao, Dr. P.Suresh Varma
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 38 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: B.Srinivas, Dr.Koduganti Venkata Rao, Dr. P.Suresh Varma
10.5120/4702-6859

B.Srinivas, Dr.Koduganti Venkata Rao, Dr. P.Suresh Varma . Piracy Detection and Prevention using SIFT based on Earth Moverís Distance (EMD).. International Journal of Computer Applications. 38, 7 ( January 2012), 35-41. DOI=10.5120/4702-6859

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issue_date = { January 2012 },
volume = { 38 },
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month = { January },
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issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 35-41 },
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Abstract

These days software is not just few lines of code and few number of files, it constitute major part of business logic, and most valuable information. Software is required by all kind of people from individuals to large organizations to carry out important tasks. But it is being pirated on large scale, violating software license and leading to copyright infringement. Almost 50% software licenses are pirated accounting over 51.4 billion dollars loss globally. Piracy is killing many software businesses leading to drastic loss for software developers. Under these circumstances there is a need for anti-piracy methods. This paper discuss about a robust yet efficient method for avoiding software piracy. After introducing software piracy methods and general piracy activities carried out by pirates, a mechanism to validate authorized user using face identity is described. A vector based algorithm is explained which detects Facial features of authorized user and generates a user authentication key, which is used for validation during product activation.

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Piracy facial authentication face recognition anti-piracy key generation.

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