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In an image secret sharing scheme (ISSS), two main categories are discussed. One is the polynomial-style image secret sharing scheme (PISSS), and the other is the visual secret sharing (VSS). It is interesting to combine the main properties of these two schemes. When the encoded secret images are received, we can decode them by combining these two schemes’ properties, utilizing the VSS property to seek the secret immediately by human visual system (HVS) and the PISSS property to recover the secret perfectly with a decoding machine. This paper combines PISSS and random grids-based VSS to remove all the drawbacks existing in the previous works including 1) distortion by compressing a secret image, 2) non-perfect reconstructed image, 3) distortion of pixel expansion, and 4) size-reduced halftone image. The experimental results demonstrate the proposed scheme does work well.
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The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their valuable discussions and comments. This research was partially supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C., under contract no. MOST 105-2221-E-415 -012 -.
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Chen, TH., Lin, KS. & Lin, CH. On the design of a two-decoding-option image secret sharing scheme. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 7865–7881 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4680-3
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