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A New Construction of Tagged Visual Cryptography Scheme

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Digital-Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2015)

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Tagged visual cryptography scheme (TaVCS) is a new type of visual cryptography scheme, in which an additional tag image is revealed visually by folding up each share. A TaVCS not only carries augmented information in each share, but also provides user-friendly interface to identify each share. In this paper, we present a novel method to construct (k, n)-TaVCS. It can adjust visual quality of both the reconstructed secret image and the recovered tag image flexibly. Meanwhile, the proposed method provides better visual quality of both the reconstructed secret image and the recovered tag image under certain condition. Experimental results and theoretical analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Many thanks to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This work was supported by the “Strategic Priority Research Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences grant No. Y2W0012102 and the IIE’s Project grant No. Y5X0061102.

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

    Yawei Ren, Feng Liu, Dongdai Lin & Wen Wang

  2. School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Rongquan Feng

  3. School of Information Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, 100192, China

    Yawei Ren

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

    Yawei Ren & Wen Wang

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Ren, Y., Liu, F., Lin, D., Feng, R., Wang, W. (2016). A New Construction of Tagged Visual Cryptography Scheme. In: Shi, YQ., Kim, H., Pérez-González, F., Echizen, I. (eds) Digital-Forensics and Watermarking. IWDW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31960-5_35

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