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Secret Image Communication Scheme Based on Visual Cryptography and Tetrolet Tiling Patterns

N. RajeshKumar¹, D. Yuvaraj², G. Manikandan^{3, *}, R. BalaKrishnan¹, B. Karthikeyan³, D. Narasimhan¹, N. R. Raajan⁴

1 Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre, SASTRA Deemed University, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India.
2 Department of Computer Science, Cihan University-Duhok, Duhok, Iraq.
3 School of Computing, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
4 School of EEE, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.

* Corresponding Author: G. Manikandan. Email: .

Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 65(2), 1283-1301. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011226

Received 27 April 2020; Accepted 03 July 2020; Issue published 20 August 2020

Abstract

Visual cryptographic scheme is specially designed for secret image sharing in the form of shadow images. The basic idea of visual cryptography is to construct two or more secret shares from the original image in the form of chaotic image. In this paper, a novel secret image communication scheme based on visual cryptography and Tetrolet tiling patterns is proposed. The proposed image communication scheme will break the secret image into more shadow images based on the Tetrolet tiling patterns. The secret image is divided into 4×4 blocks of tetrominoes and employs the concept of visual cryptography to hide the secret image. The main feature of the proposed scheme is the selection of random blocks to apply the tetrolet tilling patterns from the fundamental tetrolet pattern board. Single procedure is used to perform both tetrolet transform and the scheme of visual cryptography. Finally, the experimental results showcase the proposed scheme is an extraordinary approach to transfer the secret image and reconstruct the secret image with high visual quality in the receiver end.

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