Image sharing method for gray-level images

  • Authors:
  • Wei-Kuei Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology, Chungli, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In 1994, Naor and Shamir firstly proposed the concept of visual secret sharing. By using a codebook to encode a binary image into sharing images, nobody can obtain the original information from any one of the shared images unless superimposing all shared images. Although the above method can protect the security of the binary image, pixel expansion and lossy recovery are two unsolved problem. To improve the disadvantages mentioned above, a new image sharing method is proposed in this paper. The proposed method firstly use linear equations of Hill cipher to divide an image into several sub-images. Then the concept of the random grid is applied to the sub-images and to construct the shared images. Experimental result shows that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the above drawbacks.