OAcode: Overall Aesthetic 2D Barcode on Screen

Nowadays, two-dimensional (2D) barcodes have been widely used in various domains. And a series of aesthetic 2D barcode schemes have been proposed to improve the visual quality and readability of 2D barcodes for better integration with marketing materials. Yet we believe that the existing aesthetic 2D barcode schemes are
partially
aesthetic because they only beautify the data area but retain the position detection patterns with the black-white appearance of traditional 2D barcode schemes. Thus, in this paper, we propose the first
overall
aesthetic 2D barcode scheme, called OAcode, in which the position detection pattern is canceled. Its detection process is based on the pre-designed symmetrical data area of OAcode, whose symmetry could be used as the calibration signal to restore the perspective transformation in the barcode scanning process. Moreover, an enhanced demodulation method is proposed to resist the lens distortion common in the camera-shooting process. The experimental results illustrate that when
$5 \times 5 \text{cm}$
OAcode is captured with a resolution of
$720\times 1280$
pixels, at the screen-camera distance of
$10 \text{cm}$
and the angle less or equal to
$25^{\circ }$
, OAcode has 100% detection rate and 99.5% demodulation accuracy. For
$10 \times 10 \text{cm}$
OAcode, it could be extracted by consumer-grade mobile phones at a distance of
$90 \text{cm}$
with around 90% accuracy.