• Smart Media Journal
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.9-15
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• 2024

In recent trends, there has been an increase in 'Qshing' attacks, a hybrid form of phishing that exploits fake QR (Quick Response) codes impersonating government agencies to steal personal and financial information. Particularly, this attack method is characterized by its stealthiness, as victims can be redirected to phishing pages or led to download malicious software simply by scanning a QR code, making it difficult for them to realize they have been targeted. In this paper, we have developed a classification technique utilizing machine learning algorithms to identify the maliciousness of URLs embedded in QR codes, and we have explored ways to integrate this with existing QR code readers. To this end, we constructed a dataset from 128,587 malicious URLs and 428,102 benign URLs, extracting 35 different features such as protocol and parameters, and used AutoML to identify the optimal algorithm and hyperparameters, achieving an accuracy of approximately 87.37%. Following this, we designed the integration of the trained classification model with existing QR code readers to implement a service capable of countering Qshing attacks. In conclusion, our findings confirm that deriving an optimized algorithm for classifying malicious URLs in QR codes and integrating it with existing QR code readers presents a viable solution to combat Qshing attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.441-447
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• 2020

In a situation in which around 50 million metric tons of electrical and electronic products is generated globally per year, the total installed base of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is projected to amount to around 75 billion worldwide by 2025. However, there is very little research on identification schemes for end-of-life treatment (EoLT) of IoT devices. To address this issue, this paper proposes new identifiers including EoLT information such as recyclability rate (Rcyc) and recoverability rate (Rcov) of an IoT device, recycling rate (RCR) and recovery rate (RVR) of each part in the IoT device, etc. and implements them by using object identifier (OID), mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) and quick response (QR) code. The implemented OID and mobile RFID can be used with cooperation of a remote server via communication networks and the implemented QR code can be used simply with a smartphone app.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.331-334
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• 2021

기존의 택배 배송시스템은 수령인 본인이 아니더라도 주소, 전화번호와 같은 개인정보를 쉽게 확인할 수 있다. 코로나 19로 인해 언택트(Untact) 주문 및 배달, 배송 서비스가 급격히 늘어나면서 택배 배송 관련 사업은 거대한 시장으로 성장하고 있으며 이와 함께 노출된 개인정보가 범죄에 악용될 수 있다는 우려도 증가하고 있다. 더불어 여러 택배 및 배송물이 도착했을 때, 수신자는 택배 상자를 뜯지 않고 배송물의 오도착 여부를 확인하기 어려우며 원하는 물품이 담긴 택배가 정확히 어떤 것인지 알기 힘들다.본 프로젝트에서는 다단계 인증이 가능한 QR code를 활용해 송수신자의 주소, 제품 종류, 명칭 등을 포함한 여러 정보를 배송기사, 수령인 등에 따라 선택적으로 접근한다. 같은 QR code를 스캔하더라도 수령인의 경우 모든 정보를 확인할 수 있고, 배달원은 일부의 정보를 확인할 수 있지만, 권한이 없는 사람은 어떠한 정보도 확인할 수 없다. 기존의 택배 배송시스템처럼 정보를 맨눈으로 인식할 수도 없으므로 개인정보 노출의 한계를 극복할 수 있다. 이때 송장 정보는 텍스트 형태뿐 아니라 주문한 내용물의 종류 및 모양 등을 그대로 구현한 AR(augmented reality) 형태로도 확인할 수 있어 포장된 상태 그대로 배송물의 오도착 여부를 확인하거나 다량의 택배를 보다 효율적으로 구분할 수 있다. 이처럼 같은 QR code로 서로 다른 정보를 제공하는 SQRC(Security/Secure QR code)의 원리를 이용해 정보를 안전하게 보호하는 것에 그치지 않고, 비디오나 이미지와 같은 멀티미디어 서비스를 추가로 제공해 실감 미디어의 적용 범위를 넓힐 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2018

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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.2349-2354
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• 2014

While the number of smart phone subscribers excessing 30 million people, Korea is leaping into the 'smart powerhouse' from IT powerhouse. The popularizat+ion of smart devices so called 'PC in the hand', brought surely change to people's life style, and also it had led to a revolutionary change to and also to business and government. In several corporations of each countries, a variety of smart devices smart devices such as smart phone, tablet PC and E-books have been developing. Nowadays, the usage of the smart phone is not only the simple function calling. It has become a culture of the terminal type in the hand anywhere at any time, which makes can communicate with the others in anywhere and anytime. However, some of the subscribers who visit the website for PC version with the mobile devices screen, can feel kind of discomfort while surfing the net on a smartphone devices because the install of the existing video and flash files and the screen size for computer is not available for mobile devices. Therefore, in this paper, we studied on effective mobile contents generation program using QR code that is two dimensions bar code under the smart device environment. Also, unlike previous QR code generator that decorate standardized design, we realize an original QR code generation system from user perspective.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.317-323
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• 2014

The registration cards that are currently used to identify the people of Korea may cause secondary damage once stolen because they contain very specifically expressed fingerprint information. In order to solve this problem, in ID is required that can utilize the state-owned fingerprint DB, while while maintaining confidentiality of the identification information and satisfying the cost as well. At this point accordingly, a secure form of ID, which uses the encrypted QR code and fingerprint information, is proposed.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.59-69
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• 2019

The present study explored consumer's perception and preference on providing information of fashion products by using QR code and suggested the possibility for consumer-to-consumer and consumer-to-company connection. A survey was conducted on males and females in their 20s-a population among whom the rate of smart phone penetration is higher than in any other age group and who tend to exchange information online. The results showed that consumers are dissatisfied with the amount of information, terms of instructions, and ambiguous washing symbols currently provided. Therefore, the study identified the need for better methods of providing information and found that QR code, which is able to deliver high-quality information on fashion products, can be an efficient alternative. Moreover, respondents felt the need for detailed washing instructions, information on handling, and functionality of material on high-involvement fashion products such as outdoor, padding, suit, and underwear worn next to the skin. They also desire styling tips or purchasing information such as SNS OOTD (Outfit Of The Day) utilizing the product, other products that may go well with the one purchased, and similar products on casual wear and coat used on a daily basis. Therefore, QR code used as a link to information web pages or a social network can help consumers to satisfy information needs and to use the products effectively.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.139-148
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• 2023

Current food-traceability platforms suffer from problems such as inconsistent traceability standards, a lack of public credibility, and slow access to data. In this work, a combined code and identification method was designed that can achieve more secure product traceability using the dual anti-counterfeiting technology of a QR code and a hidden code. When the QR code is blurry, the hidden code can still be used to effectively identify food information. Based on this combined code, a food-safety traceability platform was developed. The platform follows unified encoding standards and provides standardized interfaces. Based on this innovation, the platform not only can serve individual food-traceability systems development, but also connect existing traceability systems. These will help to solve the problems such as non-standard traceability content, inconsistent processes, and incompatible system software. The experimental results show that the combined code has higher accuracy. The food-safety traceability platform based on the combined code improves the safety of the traceability process and the integrity of the traceability information. The innovation of this paper is invoking the combined code united the QR code's rapidity and the hidden code's reliability, developing a platform that uses a unified coding standard and provides a standardized interface to resolve the differences between multi-food-traceability systems. Among similar systems, it is the only one that has been connected to the national QR code identification platform. The project has made profits and has significant economic and social benefits.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.159-175
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• 2015

The two-dimensional QR code has advantages such as directional nature, enough data storage capacity, ability of error correction, and ability of data restoration. There are two major issues like speed and correctiveness of recognition in the two-dimensional QR code. Therefore, this paper proposes a morphology-based algorithm of detecting the interest region of a barcode. Our research contents can be summarized as follows. First, the interest region of a barcode image was detected by close operations in morphology. Second, after that, the boundary of the barcode are detected by intersecting four cross line outside in a code. Three, the projected image is then rectified into a two-dimensional barcode in a square shape by the reverse-perspective transform. In result, it shows that our detection and recognition rates for the barcode image is also 97.20% and 94.80%, respectively and that outperforms than previous methods in various illumination and distorted image environments.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.397-407
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• 2012

According to the fast supply of the SMART device, many people have a lot of interests about SMART education. The Korean government is showing a lot of effort towards the promotion of SMART education. In this study, I developed a behavioral assessments and QR code based mobile web application for school education. The developed system works seamlessly across all popular mobile device platforms and if you save the data after the assessment, this system will automatically create each person's mobile web page. Students and teachers can add comments to this page and can improve the accessibility for finding the address of this page to QR code. The developed system can contribute to the class members understanding the personality of each other and make communication run smoothly. As a result of application of developed system, it is expected to contribute to increasing the interaction between a students, parents and teachers because the developed system provides a service based to education consumer's TPO(Time, Place, Occasion).