Secret Sharing Schemes Using Visual Cryptography

Secret sharing schemes allow a secret to be shared among a group of participants so that only qualified subsets of participants can recover the secret. A visual cryptography scheme (VCS) is a special kind of secret sharing scheme in which the secret to share consists of an image and the shares consist of xeroxed transparencies which are stacked to recover the shared image. In this thesis we have given the theoretical background of Secret Sharing Schemes and the historical development of the subject. We have included a few examples to improve the readability of the thesis. We have tried to maintain the rigor of the treatment of the subject. The limitations and disadvantages of the various forms secret sharing schemes are brought out. Several new schemes for both dealing and combining are included in the thesis. We have introduced a new number system, called, POB number system. Representation using POB number system has been presented. Algorithms for finding the POB number and POB value are given.We have also proved that the representation using POB number system is unique and is more efficient. Being a new system, there is much scope for further development in this area.

Practicas Experimentales en Percepción Visual

Las prácticas obligatorias de la materia Percepción Visual constituyen un complemento de trabajo en el que deben integrarse los conocimientos informativos y los de índole formativa (técnicas, procedimientos, metodología, etc.). De acuerdo con ello, hemos seleccionado cinco cuestiones que en el pasado han sido objeto de verificación experimental, considerando, por un lado, la pertenencia al temario de las asignaturas y, por otro lado, la viabilidad de las experimentaciones, habida cuenta de la infraestructura material requerida (equipo, aparatos, material, etc.) y los condicionantes académicos (relación: número de alumnos / clase; espacios disponibles [aulas y laboratorios], condiciones ambientales, tiempo disponible, etc.). Las practicas experimentales en percepción visual ofrecen la posibilidad de que los estudiantes puedan aplicar los procedimientos experimentales adecuados, operativizando las variables (medición), estableciendo relaciones entre ellas (hipótesis) y planteando predicciones que se someterán a prueba a partir de los datos registrados. Llevan a los estudiantes a confrontar el modelo o las teorías con la realidad (verificación) y a buscar interpretaciones plausibles de las relaciones evidenciadas empíricamente entre las variables. Introducen al alumno en el rigor, la precisión, el control, la sistematicidad y la objetividad, frente a la especulación gratuita.

Cicle visual. Veure i aprendre. Una mirada jove a la memòria

Màster Oficial en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural

Investigations On The Development Of An Ann Model & Visual Manipulation Approach For 2-D Dft Computation In Image Processing

This thesis is an outcome of the investigations carried out on the development of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to implement 2-D DFT at high speed. A new definition of 2-D DFT relation is presented. This new definition enables DFT computation organized in stages involving only real addition except at the final stage of computation. The number of stages is always fixed at 4. Two different strategies are proposed. 1) A visual representation of 2-D DFT coefficients. 2) A neural network approach. The visual representation scheme can be used to compute, analyze and manipulate 2D signals such as images in the frequency domain in terms of symbols derived from 2x2 DFT. This, in turn, can be represented in terms of real data. This approach can help analyze signals in the frequency domain even without computing the DFT coefficients. A hierarchical neural network model is developed to implement 2-D DFT. Presently, this model is capable of implementing 2-D DFT for a particular order N such that ((N))4 = 2. The model can be developed into one that can implement the 2-D DFT for any order N upto a set maximum limited by the hardware constraints. The reported method shows a potential in implementing the 2-D DF T in hardware as a VLSI / ASIC

Ontology based Framework for News Extraction in Visual Media

Anticipating the increase in video information in future, archiving of news is an important activity in the visual media industry. When the volume of archives increases, it will be difficult for journalists to find the appropriate content using current search tools. This paper provides the details of the study we conducted about the news extraction systems used in different news channels in Kerala. Semantic web technologies can be used effectively since news archiving share many of the characteristics and problems of WWW. Since visual news archives of different media resources follow different metadata standards, interoperability between the resources is also an issue. World Wide Web Consortium has proposed a draft for an ontology framework for media resource which addresses the intercompatiblity issues. In this paper, the w3c proposed framework and its drawbacks is also discussed

Interface issues in the ESCHER visual database editor

Presentation at the 1997 Dagstuhl Seminar "Evaluation of Multimedia Information Retrieval", Norbert Fuhr, Keith van Rijsbergen, Alan F. Smeaton (eds.), Dagstuhl Seminar Report 175, 14.04. - 18.04.97 (9716). - Abstract: This presentation will introduce ESCHER, a database editor which supports visualization in non-standard applications in engineering, science, tourism and the entertainment industry. It was originally based on the extended nested relational data model and is currently extended to include object-relational properties like inheritance, object types, integrity constraints and methods. It serves as a research platform into areas such as multimedia and visual information systems, QBE-like queries, computer-supported concurrent work (CSCW) and novel storage techniques. In its role as a Visual Information System, a database editor must support browsing and navigation. ESCHER provides this access to data by means of so called fingers. They generalize the cursor paradigm in graphical and text editors. On the graphical display, a finger is reflected by a colored area which corresponds to the object a finger is currently pointing at. In a table more than one finger may point to objects, one of which is the active finger and is used for navigating through the table. The talk will mostly concentrate on giving examples for this type of navigation and will discuss some of the architectural needs for fast object traversal and display. ESCHER is available as public domain software from our ftp site in Kassel. The portable C source can be easily compiled for any machine running UNIX and OSF/Motif, in particular our working environments IBM RS/6000 and Intel-based LINUX systems. A porting to Tcl/Tk is under way.

Guía visual para el acceso y la utilización de Internet.

El trabajo es fruto de las actividades elaboradas para la fase presencial del 'Curso básico de Internet a distancia' organizado por el CPR de Cartagena-La Unión

Las estaciones de la imaginación : antología de materiales para la enseñanza práctica de la lengua oral y escrita en la Educación Secundaria a través de la experiencia literaria, visual y musical comparadas.

Corresponde a la segunda edición de la obra. Además de la antología, la obra contiene unos anexos explicativos y un glosario de términos detalladamente definidos

Valores en la educaci??n pl??stica y visual - I : reflexiones acerca del ??rea

En portada: Otra acepci??n del ??rea en la Ense??anza Secundaria Obligatoria. - En portada: abril 2006

Valores en la educación plástica y visual - II : ejemplificaciones.

En portada: actividades Un enfoque alternativo para el área en la ESO. - En portada: septiembre de 2006. - Bibliografía comentada (p. 88-90)

Educaci??n pl??stica y visual : contenidos digitales del curr??culo para primero de ESO Regi??n de Murcia

Unidades did??cticas digitales adaptadas al curr??culo educativo de la Regi??n de Murcia que sirven de apoyo al profesor en el aula, al tiempo que fomentan la interacci??n con los alumnos a trav??s de la tecnolog??a. Est??n concebidas como recursos complementarios al libro de texto tradicional. La publicaci??n forma parte del proyecto AULA XXI cuyo objetivo es avanzar en la integraci??n plena de las TIC en el ??mbito educativo regional. Se incluyen actividades de aprendizaje din??micas que favorecen una actitud m??s activa del alumno en clase, a la vez que le proporciona una gu??a para seguir los contenidos de repaso o ampliaci??n a trav??s de sistemas de autoevaluaci??n.

The Use of Grouping in Visual Object Recognition.

The report describes a recognition system called GROPER, which performs grouping by using distance and relative orientation constraints that estimate the likelihood of different edges in an image coming from the same object. The thesis presents both a theoretical analysis of the grouping problem and a practical implementation of a grouping system. GROPER also uses an indexing module to allow it to make use of knowledge of different objects, any of which might appear in an image. We test GROPER by comparing it to a similar recognition system that does not use grouping.