Analysis of the HalfTone Visual Cryptography and proposing a model for illustrating the related schemes
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International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) | 
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| © 2015 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-30 Number-1 |
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| Year of Publication : 2015 | ||
| Authors : Dr. Amit Chaturvedi, Imtiyaz Rehman | ||
| DOI : 10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V30P104 |
Dr. Amit Chaturvedi, Imtiyaz Rehman "Analysis of the HalfTone Visual Cryptography and proposing a model for illustrating the related schemes". International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) V30(1):20-25, December 2015. ISSN:2231-2803. www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
Abstract -
Halftone visual cryptography (HVC)
enlarges the area of Visual cryptography (VC) by
using halftoning techniques. Halftoning technique is
a reprographic technique.
The main applications of visual cryptography which
includes Moire patterns, Watermarking and many
others implies more research work to be done on
various schemes regarding visual cryptography
especially halftone VC which works in a different
and better manner than others.
In HVC scheme, a secret image is embedded into
halftone shares with meaningful information of the
cover images. Meaningful shares are required so as
to increase the efficiency of shares management and
decrease the suspicion of secret image encryption,
thus providing a good image quality as the error
diffusion is known to have low complexity. In this
paper, we presents an analysis of various
construction methods using error diffusion and is
guaranteed by the properties of visual cryptography.
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Keywords
halftone, SIPs, ABPs, cryptography,
security, HVCS, EVCS.