Towards robust color recovery for high-capacity color QR codes

Zhibo Yang, Zhiyi Cheng, Chen Change Loy, Wing Cheong Lau, Chak Man Li, Guanchen Li

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Abstract

Color brings extra data capacity for QR codes, but it also brings tremendous challenges to the decoding because of color interference and illumination variation, especially for high-density QR codes. In this paper, we put forth a framework for high-capacity QR codes, HiQ, which optimizes the decoding algorithm for high-density QR codes to achieve robust and fast decoding on mobile devices, and adopts a learning-based approach for color recovery. Moreover, we propose a robust geometric transformation algorithm to correct the geometric distortion. We also provide a challenging color QR code dataset, CUHK-CQRC, which consists of 5390 high-density color QR code samples captured by different smartphones under different lighting conditions. Experimental results show that HiQ outperforms the baseline [1] by 286% in decoding success rate and 60% in bit error rate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2866-2870
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399616
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 3 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: Sept 25 2016Sept 28 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period9/25/169/28/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

Keywords

  • Color interference
  • Color recovery
  • High capacity
  • Illumination variation
  • QR code

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