“…Wu et al [23] proposed a VC-based scheme for color images and Shyu [17] proposed a RG-based scheme for gray-level and color images. To expand usage of VSS, improving the visual quality is important, so VC-based schemes [10,11,14,24,25] and RG-based schemes [2,15,22] have been proposed. Extended from the simple VSS so that more shares could be generated, a study of visual secret sharing was undertaken by Shyu [18] and Chen and Tsao [4,6,7], both of whom used RG.…”