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A Method to Express Audio Binary Files by Color QR Codes and Its Application  

Lee, Choong Ho (Department of Information and Communication Eng., Hanbat National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing / v.19, no.2, 2018 , pp. 47-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a method to express an MP3 audio file by a series of color QR codes which can be printed on the paper. Moreover, the method can compress the data considerably. Firstly, an MP3 file is divided into many small files which have maximum capacity of binary file of a QR code. Secondly, the multiple files are converted to multiple black-and-white QR codes. Lastly, every three QR codes are combined into color QR codes. When combining, each of three black-and-white QR codes are regarded as red, green, blue components respectively. In this method, the areas of a color QR code where two QR codes are overlapped are expressed by the colors Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. And the areas where three components are overlapped are expressed by white color. Contrarily, the areas that no components are overlapped are expressed by white color. Experimentation result shows that an MP3 file with 8.5MB the original MP3 files are compressed with the compression rate around 15.7. This method has the advantage that can be used in the environments that the internet access is impossible.
Keywords
QR code; Pattern recognition; Data compression; Audio file;
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