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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2009, Article ID 187874, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/187874
Research Article

Improvements in Geometry-Based Secret Image Sharing Approach with Steganography

Mustafa Ulutas, Vasif V. Nabiyev, and Guzin Ulutas

Department of Computer Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080 Trabzon, Turkey

Received 13 April 2009; Revised 30 September 2009; Accepted 6 November 2009

Academic Editor: Panos Liatsis

Copyright © 2009 Mustafa Ulutas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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