Information compression for remote readable ID tags
Sergi Horrillo, Elisabet Pérez–Cabré, María Sagrario Millán · Journal of Optics · 2010
Optical identity (ID) tags have been introduced and described to achieve remote target recognition and identification. Optical ID tags usually contain encrypted signatures to be read out, decrypted and verified. In this paper, new features are introduced so that ID tags can be reliably used for remote detection and verification even if the captured tag is extremely degraded by perspective or optical distortion. Optimization of the ID tag size as well as the number of bits required to display the complex-amplitude information are analysed and discussed. The highest compression of grey levels, which corresponds to binary ID tags, is studied. Decryption and verification results are provided to analyse the possibilities of the newly designed optical ID tags.