Robust secret image sharing scheme resistance to maliciously tampered shadows by AMBTC and quantization

Yuyuan Sun; Ching-Nung Yang; Xuehu Yan; Yuliang Lu; Lei Sun

doi:10.1016/j.gep.2022.119267

Robust secret image sharing scheme resistance to maliciously tampered shadows by AMBTC and quantization

Gene Expr Patterns. 2022 Sep:45:119267. doi: 10.1016/j.gep.2022.119267. Epub 2022 Aug 5.

Authors

Yuyuan Sun¹, Ching-Nung Yang², Xuehu Yan³, Yuliang Lu⁴, Lei Sun⁵

Affiliations

¹ National University of Defense Technology, Hefei, 230037, China; Anhui Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Situation Awareness and Evaluation, Hefei, 230037, China. Electronic address: sun_yuyuan@nudt.edu.cn.
² Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, 974, Taiwan. Electronic address: cnyang@gms.ndhu.edu.tw.
³ National University of Defense Technology, Hefei, 230037, China; Anhui Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Situation Awareness and Evaluation, Hefei, 230037, China. Electronic address: publictiger@126.com.
⁴ National University of Defense Technology, Hefei, 230037, China; Anhui Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Situation Awareness and Evaluation, Hefei, 230037, China. Electronic address: publicLuYL@126.com.
⁵ National University of Defense Technology, Hefei, 230037, China; Anhui Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Situation Awareness and Evaluation, Hefei, 230037, China.

PMID: 35940552
DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2022.119267

Abstract

For (k, n)-threshold secret image sharing (SIS) scheme, only k or more than k complete parts can recover the secret information, and the correct image cannot be obtained if the count of shadow images is not enough or the shadow images are damaged. The existing schemes are weak in resisting large-area shadow image tampering. In this paper, we propose a robust secret image sharing scheme resisting to maliciously tampered shadow images by Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding (AMBTC) and quantization (RSIS-AQ). The secret image is successively compressed in two ways: AMBTC and quantization. The sharing shadow images contain the sharing results of both compressed image from different parts, so that even the shadow images are faced with large-scale area of malicious tampering, the secret image can be recovered with acceptable visual quality. Compared with related works, our scheme can resist larger area of tampering and yield better recovered image visual quality. The experimental results prove the effectiveness of our scheme.

Keywords: AMBTC; Maliciously tamper; Quantization; Robustness; Secret image sharing.

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Computer Security*