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With the popularization of smart phones, Quick Response (QR) code becomes one of the most widely used two-dimensional barcodes. Standard QR code consists of black and white squares (called modules) and its noise-like appearance would seriously disrupt the aesthetic appeal of its carrier, e.g., a poster. To make QR code more aesthetic, this paper proposes an automatic approach for blending a visual-unattractive QR code with a background image. This approach consists of two stages: module-based blending and pixel-based blending. At the first stage, a binary aesthetic QR code is generated module by module. At the second stage, a color aesthetic QR code is further generated pixel by pixel. The advantages of our approach are: 1) greatly enhancing the aesthetic appearance of the original QR code, 2) maintaining the error correction capacity of the standard QR code, 3) allowing full-area blending of various photographs, drawings and graphics. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach produces high quality QR codes in terms of both visual appearance and readability.
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Zhang, Y., Deng, S., Liu, Z., Wang, Y. (2015). Aesthetic QR Codes Based on Two-Stage Image Blending. In: He, X., Luo, S., Tao, D., Xu, C., Yang, J., Hasan, M.A. (eds) MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8936. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14442-9_16
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