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The conventional barcode is currently employed in some mobile payment applications. The barcode serves as a token which represents the identity of a user. However, attacks on the payment process can be initiated by intercepting the barcode images in various ways. In this work, we proposed a ideo-based Robust and Aesthetic 2D barCode (vRA Code) so that the security of the token is protected while the efficiency in the decoding process is guaranteed. Experiments with different embedded video contents and capturing angles have been conducted to show the practicality of the proposed system. Experimental results have demonstrated that a vRA Code can be decoded in about 1.5 s.
The work of C. Chen and F. Lan were supported by the NSFC Project under Grant 61702340, the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China under Grant 2017A030310382, and the Science and Technology Innovation Commission of Shenzhen, China under Project 827/000213. The work of W. H. Mow was supported by the General Research Fund from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 16233816).
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Chen, C., Lan, F., Mow, W.H. (2018). A Secure Video-Based Robust and Aesthetic 2D Barcode. In: Xiang, Y., Sun, J., Fortino, G., Guerrieri, A., Jung, J. (eds) Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. IDCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02738-4_25
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