MTVSS: (M)isalignment (T)olerant (V)isual (S)ecret (S)haring on resolving alignment difficulty

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1602-1624

  Yang, Ching Nung ^a   Peng, An Guo ^a   Chen, Tse Shih ^a  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Misalignment tolerance; Secret sharing; Shadow image; Visual cryptography; Visual secret sharing

Indexed keywords

MISALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; SECRET SHARING; SHADOW IMAGE; VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY; VISUAL SECRET SHARING;

ALIGNMENT; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DECODING; TRANSPARENCY;

SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

EID: 64549086284     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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