Improving the visual quality of size invariant visual cryptography scheme

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 331-342

  Liu, Feng ^a   Guo, Teng ^a,b   Wu, Chuankun ^a   Qian, Lina ^a  

^a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Multi pixel encryption; Probabilistic visual cryptography scheme; Secret sharing; Size invariant; Thin line problem; Variance; Visual cryptography; Visual quality

Indexed keywords

SECRET SHARING; SIZE INVARIANT; THIN LINE PROBLEM; VARIANCE; VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY; VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY SCHEMES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

PIXELS; RECOVERY;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 83455237417     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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