Title
Meaningful Secret Image Sharing with Saliency Detection
Abstract
Secret image sharing (SIS), as one of the applications of information theory in information security protection, has been widely used in many areas, such as blockchain, identity authentication and distributed cloud storage. In traditional secret image sharing schemes, noise-like shadows introduce difficulties into shadow management and increase the risk of attacks. Meaningful secret image sharing is thus proposed to solve these problems. Previous meaningful SIS schemes have employed steganography to hide shares into cover images, and their covers are always binary images. These schemes usually include pixel expansion and low visual quality shadows. To improve the shadow quality, we design a meaningful secret image sharing scheme with saliency detection. Saliency detection is used to determine the salient regions of cover images. In our proposed scheme, we improve the quality of salient regions that are sensitive to the human vision system. In this way, we obtain meaningful shadows with better visual quality. Experiment results and comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/e24030340
ENTROPY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
secret image sharing, random elements utilization model, statistical correlation, saliency detection, meaningful shadows, polynomial-based SIS
Journal
24
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1099-4300
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingwen Cheng100.68
Xuehu Yan202.70
Lintao Liu33313.15
Yue Jiang401.35
Xuan Wang529157.12