Progressive Reconstruction on Region-Based Secret Image Sharing

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(Formula presented.) threshold progressive secret image sharing (PSIS) has become an important issue in recent years. In (Formula presented.) PSIS, a secret image is encrypted into n shadows such that k to n shadows can gradually reconstruct the secret image. Since an image can usually be divided into different regions in such a way that each region includes information with different importance levels, region-based PSIS has also been proposed where the reconstruction of different regions requires different thresholds on the shadow numbers. In this work, we propose new region-based (Formula presented.) PSIS that achieves a novel reconstruction model, where all regions possess the property of (Formula presented.) threshold progressive reconstruction, but the same number of shadows recovers a lower proportion of information in regions with a higher importance level. This new reconstruction model can further complete the application of region-based PSIS, where each region has an equal minimum threshold for reconstruction, and the difference in importance levels between regions can be reflected in the proportion of the recovered image using the same number of shadows. A theoretical analysis proves the correctness of the proposed scheme, and the experimental results from four secret images also show the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1529
JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
Volume13
Issue number8
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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    Research areas

  • progressive reconstruction, proportion, region, secret image sharing

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