Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 718 - 724
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SCOPUS; KCI
Document Type
Article
Abstract
We present a novel joint barcode deblurring and nonuniform illumination compensation algorithm for barcode signals whose number of modules is known. The proposed algorithm is based on a penalized least squares method using a roughness penalty function for an illumination model and a double well penalty function for a barcode signal model. In simulations, the proposed method shows an improved performance compared with a conventional method without compensating nonuniform illumination effects. In addition, the proposed method converges quickly during optimization (within 15 iterations), thereby showing strong possibility for real time decoding of barcode signals.