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Improving Visual Quality for Probabilistic and Random Grid Schemes

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Improving Image Quality in Visual Cryptography

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This chapter focuses on improving visual quality for grayscale secret images. First, we review available designs of VC for grayscale secret image. Then we provide a new design for (n, n)-threshold VC based on an Analysis-by-Synthesis (AbS) framework. The AbS-based probabilistic VC and AbS-based random grid VC will be elaborated in full detail.

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    ©  2019 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 28, No. 2, Improving the Visual Quality of Size-Invariant Visual Cryptography for Grayscale Images: An Analysis-by-Synthesis (AbS) Approach, Bin Yan et al.

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  1. College of Electronics, Communication and Physics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

    Bin Yan

  2. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Yong Xiang

  3. School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Guang Hua

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Yan, B., Xiang, Y., Hua, G. (2020). Improving Visual Quality for Probabilistic and Random Grid Schemes. In: Improving Image Quality in Visual Cryptography. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8289-5_5

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