Two-dimensional (2D) codes are widely used for various fields such as production, logistics, and marketing thanks to their larger capacity than one-dimensional barcodes. However, they are subject to distortion when printed on non-rigid materials, such as papers and clothes. Although general 2D code decoders correct uniform distortion such as perspective distortion, it is difficult to correct non-uniform and irregular distortion of the 2D code itself. This paper proposes a decoding method for the 2D code, which models monochrome auxiliary line recognition as Markov random field, and solves it using belief propagation.

Date Published: 14 May 2017
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 10338, Thirteenth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision 2017, 1033805 (14 May 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2266848

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10338:
Thirteenth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision 2017
Hajime Nagahara; Kazunori Umeda; Atsushi Yamashita, Editor(s)