Localization and Segmentation of A 2D High Capacity Color Barcode

A 2D color barcode can hold much more information than a binary barcode. Barcodes are often intended for consumer use, such as, a consumer can take an image with her cellphone camera of a barcode on a product, and retrieve relevant information about the product. The barcode must be read using computer vision techniques. While a color barcode can hold more information, it makes this vision task unusually challenging because of the varying color balancing in different cameras, poor quality of images taken with current cellphone cameras and webcams, varying lighting conditions, arbitrary rotation and even perspective transforms of the barcodes in images. We present our approach to the localization and segmentation of a 2D color barcode in such challenging scenarios, along with its evaluation on a diverse collection of images containing Microsoft’s recently launched High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB). The problem of reading barcodes has a special trait compared to other computer vision ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WACV
• Authors: Devi Parikh, Gavin Jancke
• Keywords: 2D Color Barcode, Barcode, Color Barcode, Computer Vision, WACV 2008