X - International Journal of Information Science and Computer Mathematics (Closed Ed TRF)
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 61 - 77
(November 2011)
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4-COLORED VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY SCHEMES WITH HIGH CONTRAST
Miyuki Uno, Yukiko Ishibashi and Mikio Kano
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Abstract: In k-out-of-n visual cryptography scheme the secret image is encoded into n shares and each share is printed on a transparency. Then the secret image can be obtained only by stacking k of the n shares, but we cannot get any information about the secret image from fewer than k shares. A colored VCS, in which the secret image is comprised of colored pixels, has been studied by some people, but known constructions lose a lot of contrast in reconstructed images. In this paper, we introduce a new colored VCS, which uses only four colors, black, white, red and green, and propose its construction with high contrast by using the property that a stacking of a red subpixel and a green subpixel results a black subpixel. We provide a construction of such a 4-colored with contrast for and prove that these contrasts are sharp. Moreover, we show that the pixel expansion of our construction is also sharp. |
Keywords and phrases: visual cryptography scheme, colored VCS, 4-colored VCS, high contrast VCS. |
Communicated by Kewen Zhao |
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