Application of QR Code Watermarking and Encryption in the Protection of Data Privacy of Intelligent Mouth-Opening Trainer

Jiannan Liu, Jing Han, Kang Fu, Jun Jia, Dandan Zhu, Guangtao Zhai

Abstract: Quick response (QR) codes are widely used in offline to online channels to transfer information from promotional materials to mobile devices. Self-service medical equipment can record the data of each test, so the use of QR codes can realize the data exchange between patients and doctors, medical institutions, and self-service medical equipment, and create a medical information platform for health files. However, since anyone can easily read the information in the QR code, it is not conducive to the protection of patient privacy. Therefore, we propose a QR code encryption and decryption model based on robust digital watermarking. We implement digital watermarking through the generative adversarial networks and increase the robustness of the watermark by adding noise to the model. At the same time, we encrypt and decrypt the QR code information through advanced encryption standards. Experimental results show that the proposed method can well protect the privacy of patients without affecting the data acquisition by patients and doctors.