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Progressive viewing and sharing of sensitive images

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The paper proposes a progressive viewing method useful in sharing a sensitive image. As in visual cryptography, this method characterizes its ability to recover the image by stacking transparencies without any computation. However, the method balances the sensitivity and the daily-processing convenience of the image.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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Wen-Pinn Fang was born in 1971 in Taiwan, Republic of China. He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from National Sun-Yet-Sans University in 1994, and MS degree in mechanical engineering from National Chiao Tung University in 1998. In 2006 he received his PhD in Computer Science Department of National Chiao Tung University. His recent research interests include image sharing and image processing.

Ja-Chen Lin was born in 1955 in Taiwan, Republic of China. He received his BS degree in computer science in 1977 and MS degree in applied mathematics in 1979, both from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. In 1988 he received his PhD in mathematics from Purdue University, United States. In 1981–1982, he was an instructor at National Chiao Tung University. From 1984 to 1988, he was a graduate instructor at Purdue University. He joined the Department of Computer and Information Science at National Chiao Tung University in August 1988 and is currently a professor there. His recent research interests include pattern recognition and image processing. Dr. Lin is a member of the Phi-Tau-Phi Scholastic Honor Society.

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Fang, W.P., Lin, J.C. Progressive viewing and sharing of sensitive images. Pattern Recognit. Image Anal. 16, 632–636 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054661806040080

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