Construction of Autostereograms Taking into Account Object Colors and Its Applications for Steganography

Information on appearances of three-dimensional objects are transmitted via the Internet, and displaying objects plays an important role in a lot of areas such as movies and video games. An autostereogram is one of the ways to represent threedimensional objects taking advantage of binocular parallax, by which depths of objects are perceived. In previous methods, the colors of objects were ignored when constructing autostereogram images. In this paper, we propose a method to construct autostereogram images taking into account color variation of objects, such as shading. We also propose a technique to embed color information in autostereogram images. Using our technique, autostereogram images shown on a display change, and viewers can enjoy perceiving three-dimensional object and its colors in two stages. Color information is embedded in a monochrome autostereogram image, and colors appear when the correct color table is used. Our technique can also be used for steganography to hide col...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CW
• Authors: Yusuke Tsuda, Yonghao Yue, Tomoyuki Nishita
• Keywords: Autostereogram Image, Color Information, CW 2008, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Three-dimensional Object