AMBTC-based visual secret sharing with different meaningful shadows

Shudong Wang; Yuliang Lu; Xuehu Yan; Longlong Li; Yongqiang Yu; Shudong Wang; Yuliang Lu; Xuehu Yan; Longlong Li; Yongqiang Yu

doi:10.3934/mbe.2021266

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

2021, Volume 18, Issue 5: 5236-5251. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2021266

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AMBTC-based visual secret sharing with different meaningful shadows

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National University of Defense Technology, Hefei 230037, China
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Anhui Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Situation Awareness and Evaluation, Hefei 230037, China

Received: 12 March 2021 Accepted: 04 June 2021 Published: 11 June 2021

Secret sharing based on Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding (AMBTC) has been widely studied. However, the management of stego images is inconvenient as they seem indistinguishable. Moreover, there exists a problem of pixel expansion, which requires more storage space and higher transmission bandwidth. To conveniently manage the stego images, we use multiple cover images to make the stego images seem to be visually different from with each other. Futhermore, the stego images are different, which will not cause the attacker's suspicion and increase the security of the scheme. And traditional Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) is fused to eliminate pixel expansion. After images are compressed by AMBTC algorithm, the quantization levels and the bitmap corresponding to each block are obtained. At the same time, when the threshold is $ (k, k) $, bitmaps can be recovered losslessly, and the slight degradation of image quality is only caused by the compression itself. When the threshold is another value, the recovered image and the cover images can be recovered with satisfactory image quality. The experimental results and analyses show the effectiveness and advantages of our scheme.
- absolute moment block truncation coding,
- visual secret sharing,
- image compression,
- no pixel expansion,
- meaningful shadows
Citation: Shudong Wang, Yuliang Lu, Xuehu Yan, Longlong Li, Yongqiang Yu. AMBTC-based visual secret sharing with different meaningful shadows[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2021, 18(5): 5236-5251. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2021266

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Abstract

Secret sharing based on Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding (AMBTC) has been widely studied. However, the management of stego images is inconvenient as they seem indistinguishable. Moreover, there exists a problem of pixel expansion, which requires more storage space and higher transmission bandwidth. To conveniently manage the stego images, we use multiple cover images to make the stego images seem to be visually different from with each other. Futhermore, the stego images are different, which will not cause the attacker's suspicion and increase the security of the scheme. And traditional Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) is fused to eliminate pixel expansion. After images are compressed by AMBTC algorithm, the quantization levels and the bitmap corresponding to each block are obtained. At the same time, when the threshold is $ (k, k) $, bitmaps can be recovered losslessly, and the slight degradation of image quality is only caused by the compression itself. When the threshold is another value, the recovered image and the cover images can be recovered with satisfactory image quality. The experimental results and analyses show the effectiveness and advantages of our scheme.

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