Back-compatible Color QR Codes for colorimetric applications

Color correction techniques in digital photography often rely on the use of color correction charts, which require including this relatively large object in the field of view. We propose here to use QR Codes to pack these color charts in a compact form factor, in a fully compatible manner with conve...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Benito Altamirano, Ismael, Martínez Carpena, David, Casals Guillén, Olga, Fàbrega Gallego, Cristian, Waag, Andreas, Prades García, Juan Daniel
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/195932
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/195932
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Visió per ordinador
Reconeixement de formes (Informàtica)
Colorimetria
Computer vision
Pattern recognition systems
Colorimetry
Descrição
Resumo:Color correction techniques in digital photography often rely on the use of color correction charts, which require including this relatively large object in the field of view. We propose here to use QR Codes to pack these color charts in a compact form factor, in a fully compatible manner with conventional black and white QR Codes; this is, without losing any of their easy location, sampling and digital data storage features. First, we present an algorithm to build these new colored QR Codes that preserves the original QR Code functionality - much more than other coloring proposals based on the random substitution of black and white pixels by colors - that relies on the ability of the native CRC code to correct and counteract these alterations. Second, we demonstrate that, as a result, these QR Codes can allocate far many more colors than the conventional color correction charts, enabling much more accurate color correction schemes in a more convenient and usable format.