I would like to start thanking you all for the amazing work you did/are doing with ZXing.
As stated in the subject, I am a BSc student working on a thesis using ZXing as main library for decoding.
Briefly: we are working on the possibility of using a 2D barcode for recognizing the position of the device on a 3D surface. Namely, having a hand-held device, it is possible to know exactly (given a certain sensibility) where the User is pointing on the surface.
I have some questions for you all, which may trigger more later on.
Here are our questions:
1. Have you ever heard of a similar project? If so, could you give us some reference to the project?
#We have made our researches and we constantly are looking for similar projects/thesis to use for comparison and acknowledgement.
2. Are there some sort of specifications regarding the technologies used for the detection in ZXing? Is it using OpenCV? If so, what do you use for decoding the different barcodes (we are currently using QR Codes)?
#We tried to look through the documentation but didn't manage to find much information about it.
3. What is the 2D barcode you think is the most efficient? And why?
#We went for QR codes for several reasons, some of them being that they are fairly common/popular nowadays and that ZXing natively provides a .
4. Do you have, by any chance, some sort of report, document or anything that you think it could be useful to us and that you are allowed to share with us? (e.g. benchmark reports of your decoder vs another, benchmark reports on the different barcodes etc...)
I am the one who directly worked on the encoding/decoding part and I have to say that ZXing was amazing and very easy to work with; for this reason I thought that trying to contact you all would be a far better solution.
And, if you have any other information/suggestion to give, please feel free to do so :)
Cheers,
N.
P.S. I meant "they are fairly common/popular nowadays and that ZXing natively provides a QRCodeMultiReader"
Sorry about that!
N.
The 3D position is handled by us (we put some data into the code itself which is then converted into 3D coordinates).
The distance is not an issues as the device will be placed right on the surface (we are using a macro lens for that).
There is no way to get some sort of report on how the detection/decoding is done?
Perhaps from a documentation.
Reading code and trying to figure out where each component is and how it is handled seems quite challenging.