Secret Image Sharing Scheme Based on a Boolean Operation

Abstract Traditionally extensive researches have been done on secret image sharing which support the fault tolerance property. But their reconstruction complexity is high. Some research papers on secret image sharing are also available with smaller reconstruction complexity, due to the use of a Boolean operation. But these research works lack the fault tolerance property which is the heart of secret sharing. This paper deals with a general (k, n) secret image sharing scheme for gray scale images with both low reconstruction complexity and preservation of the fault tolerance property. Moreover, the proposed sharing generation technique can also be applied on colour images.

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