Icon scanning: Towards next generation QR codes

Itamar Friedman, Lihi Zelnik-Manor

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Abstract

Undoubtedly, a key feature in the popularity of smartmobile devices is the numerous applications one can install. Frequently, we learn about an application we desire by seeing it on a review site, someone else's device, or a magazine. A user-friendly way to obtain this particular application could be by taking a snapshot of its corresponding icon and being directed automatically to its download link. Such a solution exists today for QR codes, which can be thought of as icons with a binary pattern. In this paper we extend this to App-icons and propose a complete system for automatic icon-scanning: it first detects the icon in a snapshot and then recognizes it. Icon scanning is a highly challenging problem due to the large variety of icons (500K in App-Store) and background wallpapers. In addition, our system should further deal with the challenges introduced by taking pictures of a screen. Nevertheless, the novel solution proposed in this paper provides high detection and recognition rates. We test our complete icon-scanning system on icon snapshots taken by independent users, and search them within the entire set of icons in App-Store. Our success rates are high and improve significantly on other methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012
Pages1130-1137
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012 - Providence, RI, United States
Duration: 16 Jun 201221 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityProvidence, RI
Period16/06/1221/06/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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