CodeCube : A multi-layer color barcode for mobile social applications

With the rapid proliferation of camera-equipped smart device, two dimensional barcode obtains the widespread application in daily life. Embeding URL information to a barcode becomes popular and convenient. There is increased interest in the use of color barcode to encode more information than regular black-and-white barcode. This paper presents CodeCube-a multi layer color barcode for mobile society applications. CodeCube is specially used for three independent data to transmit together. We adopt eight colors to realize three layer information capacity barcode by exploiting the digital color image red (R), green (G), and blue (B) channels. CodeCube adapts the barcode version size to deal with the problem cause by different length of the three independent data. To eliminate color blur caused by different color module border, we propose a blur aware border methodology. We implement the sender and receiver application on Android platform, which realised the proposed barcode's encoding and decoding process. Our approach is evaluated through extensive experiment on Android samrtphones. Experimental results show that the proposed CodeCube can be an effective and practical mobile society application.