Secure Mask for Color Image Hidding

Jonathan Weir; WeiQi Yan; Danny Crookes

1st International ICST Workshop on Multimedia Security in Communication

Research Article

Secure Mask for Color Image Hidding

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685266,
    author={Jonathan Weir and WeiQi Yan and Danny Crookes},
    title={Secure Mask for Color Image Hidding},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Multimedia Security in Communication},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={MUSIC},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
    keywords={color image hiding secret sharing image embedding visual cryptography},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685266}
}

Jonathan Weir
WeiQi Yan
Danny Crookes
Year: 2008
Secure Mask for Color Image Hidding
MUSIC
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685266

Jonathan Weir¹, WeiQi Yan¹, Danny Crookes¹

1: Dept. of Computer Science Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, UK

Abstract

Hiding image in a color image is a very interesting research topic, especially using very popular software such as Microsoft Windows Paint, Internet Explorer Browser (IE) Mozilla Firefox, etc can achieve very amazing result. In this paper, we start from the select operation of IE, and introduce the mechanism how to hide a color image in a real natural image. Based on this, we generate an animation using this scheme. Using the select function of IE, we can toggle two completely different animations. We improve the hiding scheme and introduce how to embed the shares of visual cryptography into a natural color image, another share of visual cryptography works as a public key like the select operation of IE. We also introduce how to hide a visual cryptography share into a halftone image. The results are very robust and can resist print and scan tempering.

Keywords: color image hiding secret sharing image embedding visual cryptography

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685266