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Essential Visual Cryptographic Scheme with Different Importance of Shares

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Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2014)

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Essential secret image sharing scheme allows some participants own special privileges with different importance of shares. The beauty of visual cryptographic scheme (VCS) is that its decoding is based on stacking and human visual system (HVS) without cryptographic computation. In this paper, for the first time essential and non-essential VCS (ENVCS) is introduced based on pre-existed (k,n) VCS. In the proposed (k 0,n 0,k,n) ENVCS, we generate the secret image into n shares which are classified into n 0 essential shares and nā€‰āˆ’ā€‰n 0 non-essential shares. In the decoding phase, in order to reveal secret we should collect at least k shares, among which there are at least k 0 essential shares. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the security and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150080, Harbin, China

    Xuehu Yan,Ā Shen WangĀ &Ā Xiamu Niu

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

    Ching-Nung Yang

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Building, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Chu Kiong Loo

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, 43009, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Keem Siah Yap

  3. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, 6150, South St, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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  4. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, 120-749, Seoul, South Korea

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  5. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xiā€™an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Renā€™ai Road 111, SIP 215123, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

    Kaizhu Huang

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Yan, X., Wang, S., Niu, X., Yang, CN. (2014). Essential Visual Cryptographic Scheme with Different Importance of Shares. In: Loo, C.K., Yap, K.S., Wong, K.W., Beng Jin, A.T., Huang, K. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8836. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12643-2_77

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