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Reversible Image Secret Sharing

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Xianhua SongAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 15

Pages 3848 - 3858

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2020.3001735

Published: 01 January 2020 Publication History

Abstract

In reversible image secret sharing (RISS), the cover image can be recovered to some degree, and a share can be comprehensible rather than noise-like. Reversible cover images play an important role in law enforcement and medical diagnosis. The comprehensible share can not only reduce the suspicion of attackers but also improve the management efficiency of shares. In this paper, we first provide a formal definition of RISS. Then, we propose an RISS algorithm for a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(k,n)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-threshold based on the principle of the Chinese remainder theorem-based ISS (CRTISS). In the proposed RISS, the secret image is losslessly decoded by a modular operation, and the original cover image is recovered by a binarization operation, both of which are just simple operations. Theoretical analyses and experiments are provided to validate the proposed definition and algorithm.

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