A Reproducible Comparative Framework for Secure QR Code Transmission Under Controlled Distortions
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Secure QR-based data transfer requires a careful balance between confidentiality, payload size, decoding reliability, and resistance to visual degradation. This paper presents a reproducible comparative framework for studying secure QR code transmission under controlled distortions. The framework combines protected payload generation, batch experimentation, and comparative visual analysis to examine how payload mode, error-correction level, decoder backend, and image degradation influence transmission success, overhead, QR complexity, and processing time. The results highlight key trade-offs among robustness, efficiency, and symbol density, and provide practical guidance for selecting suitable secure QR transmission settings in distortion-prone environments. Unlike existing evaluation approaches that address security and robustness factors in isolation, the proposed framework offers the first unified experimental environment for their joint reproducible assessment, making it directly applicable to systematic research in secure QR transmission design.
Authors: Diyan Dinev, Gergana Spasova
Institution: Technical University of Varna
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204868039