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Enhance the visual quality of shares and recovered secret on meaningful shares visual secret sharing

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Chun-Yu Wang,

Ni-Shan Shiao,

Hong-Hao Chen,

Chwei-Shyong TsaiAuthors Info & Claims

ICUIMC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2108616.2108635

Published: 14 January 2010 Publication History

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Visual secret sharing (VSS) schemes have been proposed by Naor and Shamir [1] in 1995. It encodes a binary secret image into several meaningless images called shares or transparencies. The secret image can be obtained by stacking the qualified set of shares without any complex computation. This paper proposed a (k, n) VSS scheme which encodes a secret into n meaningful shares, and these shares can be grayscale or color images. People gather k or more shares can recover the secret information by stacking these shares together, but nothing when number of shares less than k. The scheme improves Tsai et al.'s scheme [2] which provided lower quality of recovered secret. Experimental results show that our scheme provides higher visual quality of shares and recovered secrets.

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Enhance the visual quality of shares and recovered secret on meaningful shares visual secret sharing
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Image processing
2. Security and privacy
  1. Systems security
    1. Operating systems security

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ICUIMC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication

January 2010

550 pages

ISBN:9781605588933

DOI:10.1145/2108616

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Kwan-Ho You
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
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Sang-Won Lee
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
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Won Kim
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
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Dongho Won
SungKyunkwan University, Korea

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Pandey DRawat URathore NPandey KShukla P(2020)Distributed Biomedical Scheme for Controlled Recovery of Medical Encrypted ImagesIRBM10.1016/j.irbm.2020.07.003Online publication date: Jul-2020
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Cheng TChang CLiu L(2017)Secret sharingMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-016-3535-776:7(9337-9362)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2017
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