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General construction for XOR-based visual cryptography and its extended capability

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A visual cryptography scheme (VCS) can be realized by Boolean operations OR and XOR, respectively. The monotone property of OR operation reduces the visual quality of recovered image. To overcome this problem, some advanced XOR based VCSs (VCSXOR) were further designed to provide some favorable features such as high contrast and good resolution. However, they are all confined to non-strong access structures. In this paper, we focus on strong access structures and propose a general construction of VCSXOR, which provides flexible sharing strategies, perfect reconstruction of secret image. Furthermore, a new region incrementing VCS based on XOR (RIVCSXOR) is presented, which exploits the proposed VCSXOR. Experimental results show that our schemes further enrich the application scenarios and outperform previous schemes significantly.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant NO.61070086 and Foundation of Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory of China under Grant NO.KJ-13-107. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.

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    Hao Hu, Gang Shen, Zhengxin Fu & Bin Yu

  2. Department of Radiology, Anhui Jimin Cancer Hospital, Anhui, China

    Jingjing Wang

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Hu, H., Shen, G., Fu, Z. et al. General construction for XOR-based visual cryptography and its extended capability. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 13883–13911 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3250-4

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