Region Incrementing Visual Cryptography Scheme with Same Contrast

In binary Region increm enting visual cryptography schemes (RIVCSs), the secrets of multi-ple secrecy regions can be gradually revealed by hu-man visual system. A characteristic of the existing binary RIVCSs different from traditional binary Visual cryptog-raphy schemes (VCSs) is that, the contrasts for different revealed regions are different while traditional binary VCSs have same contrast. To keep the quality (contrast) of re-covered image compatible with the traditional VCS, we use integer linear programming to design a binary (k,n)-RIVCS with same contrast for all secrecy regions in this paper. Experimental results demonstrate that our method is feasible and effective. The trade-off is that our schem e involves a larger pixel expansion.