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Reading QR Codes on challenging surfaces using thin-plate splines
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In real world uses, QR Codes are printed or overlaid on top of complex surfaces, like cylindrical bottles or other daily objects with random topographies that pose big challenges to their readout with the conventional planar algorithms proposed in the standard ISO and implemented in most of the available codes. We propose here a general-purpose method to improve the readability of QR Codes placed on these challenging surfaces, by fitting the topography of the underlying arbitrary surface with thin-plate splines. Then, we compare this new method with other alternatives proposed in the literature, like affine, projective and cylindrical transformations. Results demonstrate that our new approach works well under a variety of arbitrary surface topographies including those assumed in former proposals, and improve their readability by a factor of 4, clearly outperforming state-of-the-art decoders.
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BENITO ALTAMIRANO, Ismael, et al. Reading QR Codes on challenging surfaces using thin-plate splines. Pattern Recognition Letters. 2024. Vol. 184, num. 37-43. ISSN 0167-8655. [consulted: 7 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/225053