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    Area of Science:

    • Optics
    • Information Security
    • Image Processing

    Background:

    • Traditional optical hiding methods often rely on specialized components, limiting versatility and increasing system costs.
    • Concealing information on diverse surfaces like metal, wood, and paper presents a significant challenge for current optical techniques.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel, versatile, and cost-effective optical information hiding method applicable to various surfaces.
    • To embed secret information into surface images with high security and imperceptibility.
    • To enable simple and feasible information extraction using the human visual system.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing surface images with symmetric grayscale histogram distributions as carriers.
    • Scrambling surface images and adjusting gray values to embed secret information, creating a key image.
    • Employing incoherent superposition of projected scrambled and key images for information extraction.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method successfully embeds and extracts secret information from various surface images (metal, wood, paper).
    • Both simulation and optical experiments confirm the method's practical applicability, good security, and imperceptibility.
    • The human visual system facilitates straightforward extraction without complex optical knowledge.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed optical information hiding technique offers a versatile and reliable solution for diverse surfaces.
    • The method demonstrates strong potential for practical applications in secure optical information storage and transmission.
    • Further analysis confirms the applicability of surface images and the imperceptibility of the generated key images.