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A novel two-in-one image secret sharing scheme based on perfect black visual cryptography

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Perfect black visual cryptography scheme (PBVCS) shares a binary secret image into n shadows. Stacking any \(k(k<n)\) shadows can reveal a vague secret image, and the black area of the secret image is recovered as perfect black. Two-in-one image secret sharing (TiOISS) scheme is a secret image sharing method with two decoding options. It can not only decode a vague secret image by stacking any k shadows, but also reveal the original grayscale secret image with k shadows by computation. Researchers proposed some TiOISS schemes, which are based on visual cryptography and polynomial-based image secret sharing (PISS). Since PISS reveals the secret image by Lagrange’s interpolation, these TiOISS schemes need complex computation. In this paper, we proposed a novel TiOISS scheme based on PBVCS using exclusive OR operation. Compared with literature TiOISS schemes, our scheme does not need complex computation in revealing process, and it can be used in real-time application. The grayscale secret image can be recovered quickly with a few Boolean operations.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported in part by the Natural Science Funds of Hebei (Grant No. F2015502014), and Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grant 104-2918-I-259-001 and 104-2221-E-259-013.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei, China

    Peng Li & Qian Kong

  2. Department of CSIE, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, 974, Taiwan

    Ching-Nung Yang

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A preliminary version of this paper appeared under the title ‘Two-in-one secret image sharing scheme based on Boolean operations’ in Proceeding of 13-th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2014) [18].

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Li, P., Yang, CN. & Kong, Q. A novel two-in-one image secret sharing scheme based on perfect black visual cryptography. J Real-Time Image Proc 14, 41–50 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-016-0621-z

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