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Flexible Visual Cryptography Scheme and Its Application

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Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IX

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((TDHMS,volume 8363))

Abstract

For visual cryptography scheme (VCS), normally, the size of the recovered secret image will be expanded by m( ≥ 1) times of the original secret image. In most cases, m is not a square number, hence the recovered secret image will be distorted. Sometimes, m is too large that will bring much inconvenience to the participants to carry the share images. In this paper, we propose two visual cryptography schemes which simulated the principle of fountains. The proposed schemes have two advantages: non-distortion and flexible (with respect to the pixel expansion). Furthermore, the proposed schemes can be applied to any VCS that is under the pixel by pixel encryption model, such as VCS for general access structure, color VCS and extended VCS, and our VCS does not restrict to any specific underlying operation. Compared with other non-distortion schemes, the proposed schemes are more general and simpler, real flexible and has competitive visual quality for the recovered secret image.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Feng Liu, Teng Guo & ChuanKun Wu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Teng Guo

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University Shoufeng, Hualien, 974, Taiwan

    Ching-Nung Yang

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  1. New Jersey Institute of Technology, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA

    Yun Q. Shi

  2. Institute of Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, China

    Feng Liu

  3. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

    Weiqi Yan

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Liu, F., Guo, T., Wu, C., Yang, CN. (2014). Flexible Visual Cryptography Scheme and Its Application. In: Shi, Y.Q., Liu, F., Yan, W. (eds) Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55046-1_7

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