Journal of Information Processing
Online ISSN : 1882-6652
ISSN-L : 1882-6652
Recognition Accuracy Improvement of Obfuscated QR Code by Using Reliability Information and GMD Decoding
Keisuke FurumotoMasakatu Morii
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2018 Volume 26 Pages 350-357

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In recent years, QR code is used in various situations such as in medical prescription and the boarding procedure at the airport in addition to conventional applications. With expanding application, there are some QR codes that cannot be read by the conventional method. In this paper, we refer to this kind of QR code as obfuscated QR code. Considering the situation that the QR code is more common, improving the encoding method is not realistic. Hence, in reading obfuscated QR code, improving only the decoding method is required. In general, Euclidean decoding is used in the decoding method of QR code. On the other hand, Generalized Minimum Distance (GMD) decoding has been proposed. GMD decoding is a method of approximately performing maximum likelihood decoding by using information of the likelihood of each symbol called reliability. However, a method for calculating the reliability information of each symbol of the two-dimensional code has not been proposed. In this paper, we propose a method of calculating reliability information using the graphical features of QR code. Then, we show the proposed method is more useful in recognition accuracy of an obfuscated QR code than the conventional method using Euclidean decoding.

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