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不 107 不 An Unexpanded Visual Cryptography Method for Gray-level Images Young-Chang Hou 立理 Department of Information Management, National Central University Ching-Sheng Hsu 立理 Department of Information Management, National Central University n 參都 不便 利精神 類不識 都 來行不浪 更不便 都 不 率 念來不利 易量 更 不更 更 108 論 年 Abstract Visual cryptography is a method to encrypt a secret image into n shares so that any qualified set of shares can recover the secret, whereas any forbidden set of shares cannot leak out any secret information. Since visual cryptography uses human visual system to decrypt the secret, it becomes an appropriate scheme while computers or other decryption devices are not available. Most visual cryptographic methods use the concept of pixel expansion; therefore, the size of shares is larger than that of the secret image. Pixel expansion not only results in distortion of shares, but also consumes more storage space. In addition, most studies of visual cryptography were about black-and-white images, whereas few studies were made on gray-level images. In this paper, we proposed an unexpanded visual cryptography method for gray-level images. Our method used the concept of probability to achieve the goal of non-pixel-expansion. Moreover, we employed digital image halftoning to deal with gray-level images. Finally, we also prop