Identifier

etd-07072017-150843

Degree

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional bar-code, which is quite popular due to its excellent storage capacity and error resilience. Generally, QR codes are widely used to store text information such as URL links, geographical coordinates, name cards, inventory information, authorship, etc. To reach the current limit of QR codes, in this thesis, we would like to propose an innovative multimedia archiving technique, which is built upon the advanced signal processing scheme to tackle the multiple QR codes all at once. The multimedia data often include texts, images, audio data, special-purpose codes, music files etc. The recently proposed software-de ned multiplexing code (SDMC) can be applied to combine all of them even though each type of data would have the individual data format different from others. Our proposed new archiving technique involves two phases, namely multimedia-amalgamation (MA) and multimedia-detachment (MD). In the MA phase, the multimedia data, regardless of their data format, can be converted to the binary streams; then the SDMC will be employed to aggregate them together into a longer binary stream; such an ultimate long binary stream will be converted to the QR codes. The QR codes, protected by the inherent error-correction mechanism, will thus be placed on a sheet or multiple sheets with a uniform spacing. The sheet(s) containing multiple QR codes can thus be archived in soft (PDF) or hard (print-out) copies. In the MD (recovery) phase, one can scan these PDF les and employ our designed signal processing algorithms to separate the individual QR codes; then the corresponding QR decoder can convert these QR codes back to the original binary stream. Finally the unstuffing algorithm in the SDMC can detach the individual data from the long binary stream composed by the multimedia mixture.

Date

2017

Document Availability at the Time of Submission

Secure the entire work for patent and/or proprietary purposes for a period of one year. Student has submitted appropriate documentation which states: During this period the copyright owner also agrees not to exercise her/his ownership rights, including public use in works, without prior authorization from LSU. At the end of the one year period, either we or LSU may request an automatic extension for one additional year. At the end of the one year secure period (or its extension, if such is requested), the work will be released for access worldwide.

Committee Chair

Busch Konstantin

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_theses.4536

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