Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos.1 It can be used in a barcode reading task as barcodes are often printed...

I conducted an experiment to evaluate QR code detection performance using YOLOv4 on Android. The results showed that running the YOLOv4 model on the CPU took over 100ms per inference, which fell short of my expectations. To improve inference speed, I decided to leverage the Android Neural Networks API (NNAPI)...