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Various Color Schemes of Visual Cryptography

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Color visual cryptography makes things become real. In this chapter, we start from the basic color models and introduce multiple ways to present the color content using visual cryptographic techniques. Two visual shares of a color image could be superimposed together and the color secret could be restored using this simple operation. Color visual cryptography schemes open the door for applications and make the visual cryptography to be widely applied.

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Liu, F., Yan, W.Q. (2014). Various Color Schemes of Visual Cryptography. In: Visual Cryptography for Image Processing and Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09644-5_4

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