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18 December 2003 Visual cryptography via halftoning
Gonzalo R. Arce, Zhi Zhou, Giovanni Di Crescenzo
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Proceedings Volume 5293, Color Imaging IX: Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.532655
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States
Abstract
Visual cryptography encodes a secret binary image SI into n shares of random binary patterns. The secret image can be visually decoded by superimposing a qualified subset of shares, but no secret information can be obtained from the superposition of a forbidden subset. Such a scheme is mathematically secure, however, the binary patterns of the n shares have no visual meaning, raising the suspicion of data encryption. In order to achieve a higher level of security, halftone visual cryptography was proposed to encode a secret binary image into n halftone shares (images) carrying significant visual information. The method is further extended in this paper. Based on blue-noise dithering principles, a global optimization method is proposed to improve the overall visual quality of all n halftone shares. Thus, the adversaries are less likely to suspect the presence of hidden cryptographic information.
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Gonzalo R. Arce, Zhi Zhou, and Giovanni Di Crescenzo "Visual cryptography via halftoning", Proc. SPIE 5293, Color Imaging IX: Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, (18 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.532655
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KEYWORDS
Halftones

Visualization

Virtual colonoscopy

Binary data

Matrices

Cryptography

Information security

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