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A lightweight authenticable visual secret sharing scheme based on turtle shell structure matrix

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This paper proposes a novel visual secret sharing scheme based on a turtle shell structure matrix (TSSM) with reversibility and lightweight authentication. With the assistance of TSSM, the secret data is embedded into the original cover image and three meaningful shadow images are generated. To increase the image quality of the generated shadows, the proposed scheme designs an embedding structure that will be used to embed a secret image into shadows based on the TSSM, rather than by directly embedding authentication codes. The designed embedding structure offers a robust authentication capability at the cost of lightweight computation. Moreover, the hidden secret data can be extracted completely and the cover image can be restored losslessly through the collaboration of the three received shadows. Experimental results, on various grayscale test images, confirmed that our proposed scheme provides high visual quality and excellent authentication.

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Acknowledgments

This research is funded by: (1) National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos.U143310218); (2) Chunhui Project of Education Ministry of China (nos.Z2014045); (3) Science and Education and Technology Bureau Project of Cheng-du Municipality (nos.2016-XT00-00015-GX); (4) Graduate Innovation Fund Project of Xi Hua University (nos.ycjj2018003); (5) Civil aviation administration of China (nos.PSDSA201802).

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  1. Department of Computer and Technology, Xi Hua University, 999 Jinzhou Road, Jinniu, Chengdu, Sichuang, China

    Xiao-Shuang Li

  2. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan

    Chin-Chen Chang

  3. Department of Computer and Technology, Xi Hua University, 999 Jinzhou Road, Jinniu, Chengdu, Sichuang, China

    Ming-Xing He

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, Taichung, 433, Taiwan

    Chia-Chen Lin

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Li, XS., Chang, CC., He, MX. et al. A lightweight authenticable visual secret sharing scheme based on turtle shell structure matrix. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 453–476 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08077-z

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