Friendly progressive random-grid-based visual secret sharing with adaptive contrast

摘要

Visual secret sharing (VSS) schemes providing secret communication services are classified into two categories depending on the method of encoding the secret: visual cryptography (VC)-based and random grid (RG)-based schemes. A friendly progressive version of the VC-based VSS scheme was presented in 2008; however, it is marred by pixel expansion, which is the innate deficiency of conventional VC-based VSS schemes. This paper proposes a suitable user-friendly RG-based VSS scheme with progressive secret reconstruction and without pixel expansion. The experimental results of the developed scheme validated its feasibility, and a theoretical analysis demonstrated its visual quality and security. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.