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Construction-Based Secret Image Sharing

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Most secret image sharing (SIS) schemes output noise-like shadows and are fragile to any noise due to their restoring methods are based on mathematical operations. A noise-like shadow increases the suspicion of an attacker and the fragileness leads to the secret pixel is wrongly restored even if a bit error occurs. In this paper, we propose a construction-based SIS (CSIS) scheme for a (k, n)-threshold based on quick response (QR) code and the principle of polynomial-based SIS. In the proposed CSIS, each output shadow is a valid QR code, which is thus comprehensible and robust to typical noises. The secret image is losslessly restored by barcode scanning operation and Lagrange interpolation with any k or more shadows. The comprehensible shadow not only reduces the suspicion of an attacker but also improves the management efficiency of shadows. The robustness makes the proposed scheme applicable to noisy channel when transmitting shadows. We provide experiments to validate the proposed scheme.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number: 61602491) and the Key Program of the National University of Defense Technology (Grant Number: ZK-17-02-07).

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    Xuehu Yan, Guozheng Yang, Lanlan Qi, **gju Liu & Yuliang Lu

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  2. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

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Yan, X., Yang, G., Qi, L., Liu, J., Lu, Y. (2021). Construction-Based Secret Image Sharing. In: Liu, Q., Liu, X., Li, L., Zhou, H., Zhao, HH. (eds) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1143. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3753-0_60

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