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    Secure transmission of Hyperspectral Images
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Srujana, O.S.; Mhala, N.C.; Pais, A.R.
    Hyperspectral Images (HSIs) are images that are captured across the electromagnetic spectrum. Hyperspectral images are represented using a three-dimensional (x,y,λ) data cube where dimension x and y represent the spatial dimension of a scene, and λ represents the spectral dimension of a scene. These images contain abundant information that has to be transmitted securely among the users for further processing. Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) is a modern cryptographic method used to send the visual data securely among n users. VSS scheme generates multiple shares of the secret image, and to recover secret image, these all shares need to be stacked together.In this paper, we propose a scheme for the secure transmission of hyperspectral images using VSS. We also introduce a band selection technique as a pre-processing step to reduce the redundancy and size of the image cube. The proposed scheme uses the super-resolution concept to increase the contrast of the resultant image, obtained from the VSS. We have performed the visual quality assessment of the reconstructed image using quantitative measurement parameters and we have compared the results with the existing VSS based Randomised VSS (RVSS) scheme. The experimental results showed that our proposed scheme achieves better reconstruction quality than the RVSS scheme and reconstructs HSI with a similarity of almost 76-95%. © 2020 IEEE.
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    Verifiable XOR-based visual secret sharing scheme for hyperspectral images
    (SPIE, 2021) Srujana, O.S.; Mhala, N.C.; Pais, A.R.
    Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are the spectral images that provide spatial and spectral information. Unlike multispectral images, these images consist of 100 to 200 bands, which provide a large amount of data to identify minute details of the scene with the help of the spectral signatures. This information is valuable and should be secured while transmitting the HSI over the network. Visual cryptography is a well-known cryptographic method for securing images. It helps in securely transmitting images among n users. It converts visual data into unreadable shares that are transmitted and, stacking these shares together will reveal the image. Many visual secret sharing (VSS) schemes have been proposed in the past decade, which made it easier to hide the visual information from unauthorized users. We have proposed a verifiable XOR-based VSS method for the secure transmission of HSIs. We have introduced a preprocessing step for the image with a band selection technique, which reduces the size of the image and eliminates redundancy. It also includes the detection of the tampered shares. Embedding a verifiable bit in each pixel is performed to test the integrity of the shares. We have assessed the visual quality of the recovered image using quantitative measuring parameters. We also compared them with existing VSS methods. The proposed method recovers the HSI with a self-similarity index of 95% to 99%. The proposed method's experimental results show that the HSI is restored with better visual quality. © 2021 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).