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Progressive Visual Secret Sharing with Multiple Decryptions and Unexpanded Shares

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Differently from traditional secret sharing, progressive and perceptual secret sharing can gain clearer recovered secret image with more shares. Recently, Hou and Quan proposed a progressive visual secret sharing (PVSS) scheme that solves the pixel expansion problem of previous research. However, Hou and Quan’s scheme suffers from some problems, such as different color representation from ordinary digital images, and lossy recovery. Aiming to solve the problems, in this paper, one PVSS scheme is proposed, which has the abilities of stacking and additive decryptions. If a light-weight device is not available, the secret could be reconstructed by stacking. On the other hand, if a light-weight device is available, the secret will be reconstructed losslessly by additive operation. In addition, the proposed scheme has no the pixel expansion as well as supports different image formats. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable discussions and comments.

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  1. Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shi Jiazhuang, 050018, China

    Guohui Chen

  2. Hebei Sailhero Environmental Protection Hi-teeh Co.Ltd., Shi Jiazhuang, 050035, China

    Chunying Wang

  3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, China

    Xuehu Yan

  4. Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, 071003, China

    Peng Li

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  1. NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Yun-Qing Shi

  2. Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hyoung Joong Kim

  3. Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

    Fernando Pérez-González

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Ching-Nung Yang

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Chen, G., Wang, C., Yan, X., Li, P. (2015). Progressive Visual Secret Sharing with Multiple Decryptions and Unexpanded Shares. In: Shi, YQ., Kim, H., Pérez-González, F., Yang, CN. (eds) Digital-Forensics and Watermarking. IWDW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19321-2_28

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