(2, 3)-threshold visual cryptography for color images
Kun-Yuan Chao, Ja‐Chen Lin · 2006
Abstract:- Most of the studies in visual cryptography (VC) are for binary images. Hou’s method [Pattern Recog. 2003, Vol. 36, 1619-1629] is a good extension from binary to colors. In this study, we extend Hou’s method further so that the new scheme has fault-tolerant ability, namely, the secret image can still be revealed if one of the generated shares delays due to communication channel failure, or by natural crash of the storage equipment, or even destroyed by hackers. In the proposed scheme, a color secret image decomposes into three shares. Each share alone cannot reveal the secret image. However, gathering “any ” two of the three shares can unveil the secret image.