Visual Cryptography for Image Processing and Security: Theory, Methods, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Feng Liu, Wei Qi Yan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 154
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This unique book describes the fundamental concepts, theories and practice of visual cryptography. The design, construction, analysis, and application of visual cryptography schemes (VCSs) are discussed in detail. Original, cutting-edge research is presented on probabilistic, size invariant, threshold, concolorous, and cheating immune VCS. Features: provides a thorough introduction to the field; examines various common problems in visual cryptography, including the alignment, flipping, cheating, distortion, and thin line problems; reviews a range of VCSs, including XOR-based visual cryptography and security enriched VCS; describes different methods for presenting color content using visual cryptographic techniques; covers such applications of visual cryptography as watermarking, resolution variant VCS, and multiple resolution VCS. This logically-structured and comprehensive work will serve as a helpful reference for all researchers and students interested in document authentication and cryptography.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Fundamental Theory of Visual Cryptography....Pages 1-21
Various Problems in Visual Cryptography....Pages 23-61
Various Visual Cryptography Schemes....Pages 63-108
Various Color Schemes of Visual Cryptography....Pages 109-125
Various Applications of Visual Cryptography....Pages 127-143
Back Matter....Pages 145-145

✦ Subjects

Image Processing and Computer Vision; Systems and Data Security; Coding and Information Theory