Extended visual secret sharing schemes: Improving the shadow image quality

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 879-898

  Yang, Ching Nung ^a   Chen, Tse Shih ^a  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extended visual secret sharing scheme; Shadow images; Visual secret sharing scheme

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE QUALITY; PIXELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

STACKING SHADOW IMAGES; VISUAL SECRET SHARING (VSS);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34547776209     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001407005740     Document Type: Article

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