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Enrichment of Visual Appearance of Aesthetic QR Code

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Digital-Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2015)

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Abstract

Quick Response (QR) code is a two dimensional barcode widely used in many applications. Similar to a visible watermarking technique, the visual appearance can be modified to display an image while a standard QR code reader can decode the data contained in such a QR code. In this paper, we consider the characteristic of images to be displayed on a QR code, and propose an effective method to produce a visually better aesthetic QR code without sacrificing its error correcting capability. We also investigate the shape of modules to represent the image to be displayed and consider the trade-off between the visual quality and its readability.

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Notes

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    http://www.qrcode.com/en/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.visualead.com.

  3. 3.

    http://logoq.net.

  4. 4.

    http://staff.aist.go.jp/hagiwara.hagiwara/qrjam/index.html.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    Minoru Kuribayashi

  2. Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan

    Masakatu Morii

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  1. Minoru Kuribayashi
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  1. NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Yun-Qing Shi

  2. Korea University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Hyoung Joong Kim

  3. University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Fernando Pérez-González

  4. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Isao Echizen

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Kuribayashi, M., Morii, M. (2016). Enrichment of Visual Appearance of Aesthetic QR Code. In: Shi, YQ., Kim, H., Pérez-González, F., Echizen, I. (eds) Digital-Forensics and Watermarking. IWDW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31960-5_18

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