Accurate Modelling and Efficient Estimation of the Print-Capture Channel with Application in Barcoding.

With the rapid advancement of sensing capability and computational power in consumer electronic devices, the use of mobile cameras for communications has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. The design of a reliable communication system over the print-capture channel is a key challenge in some important applications, such as barcoding and document authentication. However, the real-world printcapture channel is spatially non-linear and non-stationary, and lacks a standard parametric model.

Robust and Unobtrusive Display-to-Camera Communications via Blue Channel Embedding.

Due to the rapid advancement in processing power and camera quality of mobile devices, research on the display-to-camera (D2C) communication channel has recently received increasing attention. Unlike the traditional QR Code, the unobtrusive D2C communication scheme normally serves both the human eyes and the mobile camera in commercial advertisements. Thus, attention should be paid to both unobtrusiveness and reliability of the design of a D2C communication scheme.

PiCode: A New Picture-Embedding 2D Barcode.

Nowadays, 2D barcodes have been widely used as an interface to connect potential customers and advertisement contents. However, the appearance of a conventional 2D barcode pattern is often too obtrusive for integrating into an aesthetically designed advertisement. Besides, no human readable information is provided before the barcode is successfully decoded.