Chenbo Pei

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and microelectronics technology, the methods used to tamper with fuel dispensers have become increasingly concealed, posing significant challenges to market supervision and law enforcement. This paper releases a tampering features dataset of assembled printed circuit boards (PCBs) from fuel dispensers, aiming to provide high-quality data support for automated, computer-vision-based illicit metering detection. The dataset encompasses multi-class tampering features derived from 189 high-resolution images of PCBs seized during real-world law enforcement, covering 5 mainstream brands. To eliminate perspective bias, rigorous lens distortion correction and four-point homography transformation preprocessing were conducted on the images. Additionally, six typical tampering features (e.g., the addition of tampered surface-mount resistors) were manually and precisely annotated, and then cross-checked and confirmed by domain experts. Furthermore, the dataset was benchmarked using multiple generations of You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection models (Baseline Validation), which have been demonstrated to handle both large and small object detection in high-resolution images. The evaluation results, including confusion matrices and t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) feature clustering diagrams, demonstrate the reliability and effectiveness of this dataset for training high-precision fraud detection models. This dataset is intended to support computer vision and anti-fraud research, promoting the automated development of fuel dispenser tampering detection.

The advancement of information technology has led to the widespread application of remote measurement systems, where information in the form of images or videos, serving as measurement results, is transmitted over networks. However, this transmission is highly susceptible to attacks, tampering, and disputes, posing significant risks to the trustworthy transmission of measurement results from instruments and devices. In recent years, many encryption algorithms proposed for images have focused on encrypting the entire image, resulting in resource waste. Additionally, most encryption algorithms are designed only for single-object-type images. Addressing these issues, this paper proposes a multi-object region encryption algorithm based on an adaptive mechanism. Firstly, an adaptive mechanism is employed to determine the strategy for adjusting the sampling rate of encryption objects, achieved through an encryption resource allocation algorithm. Secondly, an improved polygon segmentation algorithm is utilized to separate single-object regions from multi-object images, dynamically adjusting the sequence of encryption objects based on the adaptive mechanism. Finally, encryption is achieved using a chaos fusion XOR encryption algorithm. Experimental validation using instrument images demonstrates that the proposed algorithm offers high efficiency and security advantages compared to other mainstream image encryption algorithms.