Method for authentication of physical objects through capture and processing of fingerprint data via digital artifacts

Abstract

Methods disclosed herein may be conducted as part of a process of generating a unique digital fingerprint of a physical artifact and/or to determine whether the physical artifact within a region of interest can be used for authentication/validation against a unique digital fingerprint of the physical artifact that has been generated. A method includes capturing, by a device, a current digital image of a region of interest containing a physical artifact; and presenting, by the device, an instruction to capture a next digital image of a segment of the region of interest, the instruction comprising a graphical indication of the segment generated based on the current digital image. Another method includes receiving, from a device, a current digital image captured of a region of interest containing a physical artifact; generating, based on the current digital image, data corresponding to a graphical indication of a segment of the region of interest; and transmitting, to the device, the data corresponding to the graphical indication of the segment for use by the device to present an instruction to capture a next digital image of the segment of the region of interest.