A Novel (n, n) Secret Image Sharing Scheme Based on Sudoku

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2013-01-11
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Recently,Changetal.proposedaSudoku-basedsecretimagesharingscheme.TheyutilizedtheSudokugridtogeneratemeaningfulshadowimages,andtheirschemesatisfiedallessentialrequirements.BasedonChangetal.'sscheme,weproposeanovel(n,n)secretimagesharingschemebasedonSudoku.Intheproposedscheme,asecretimagecanbesharedamongndifferentcoverimagesbygeneratingnshadowimages,andthesecretimagecanbereconstructedwithoutdistortionusingonlythesenshadowimages.Also,theproposedschemecansolvetheoverflowandunderflowproblems.Theexperimentalresultsshowthatthevisualqualityoftheshadowimagesissatisfactory.Furthermore,theproposedschemeallowsforalargeembeddingcapacity.