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Security and contrast are the two key parameters in visual cryptography schemes. Security condition is fulfilled if each share reveals no information of the secret image and the secret image cannot be obtained if there are k-1 shares together. The security and reliability of the visual cryptography scheme can be greatly enhanced with recursion. The contrast of the reconstructed secret image is less compared to the existing visual cryptography schemes. The proposed model provides improved contrast and reduces the noise in the recreated image without any additional computation. This scheme uses the new pixel patterns to enhance the contrast of the decrypted image. The contrast of the recursive visual cryptography scheme can be enhanced based on new pixel patterns for white pixels.
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Monoth, T. (2019). Contrast-Enhanced Recursive Visual Cryptography Scheme Based on Additional Basis Matrices. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Das, S. (eds) Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 105. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1927-3_18
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