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Hiding a Second Appearance in a Physical Relief Surface

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Information Hiding (IH 2012)

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We present a novel information hiding process that couples geometrical modeling with automated 3D fabrication for creating hidden-appearance reliefs. Our relief surface produces a first grayscale appearance visible by simple direct illumination and a second grayscale appearance ensured to be visible when the relief is lit by a digital projector with a specifically designed pattern and from a particular direction. The two appearances/images can be different yet embedded in the same physical relief. Since the second appearance appears only on demand, it could be used to hide a second image, a company logo, or a watermark image, for instance. Our novel method calculates a relief surface that maintains the properties needed for producing a second (hidden) appearance while also ensuring the first appearance is visible under normal direct illumination. Our experiments show that our method robustly produces reliefs with two arbitrary desired appearances.

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  1. Purdue University, USA

    Yi-Liu Chao & Daniel G. Aliaga

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  1. International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, 94704, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Matthias Kirchner

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    Dipak Ghosal

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Chao, YL., Aliaga, D.G. (2013). Hiding a Second Appearance in a Physical Relief Surface. In: Kirchner, M., Ghosal, D. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36373-3_7

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