No embedding: A novel image cryptosystem for meaningful encryption |
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Institution: | 1. School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, China;2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China;3. National Engineering Research Center of Turbo-generator Vibration and the School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, China;4. Air Force Equipment Academy, China |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we propose a novel image cryptosystem, which enables to encrypt the secret images with a smaller-size cover image. Compared with the existing meaningful encryption methods, our cryptosystem has three advantages: (1) non-embedding encryption, i.e., there isn’t any data embedding into the cover image during the encryption process. (2) Our cryptosystem can simultaneously encrypt multiple secret images with one cover image, which greatly improves the security of secret images. (3) Our cryptosystem can accomplish not only the meaningful encryption, but also the meaningless encryption. Thus, people don’t switch encryption methods when meeting different encryption requirements. Our scheme leverages the popular coupled dictionary learning and compressive sensing techniques to accomplish the whole task. Specifically, we use the coupled dictionaries to build connection between the cover image and the secret image, and apply the compressive sensing to decrypt the secret image. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed cryptosystem, a series of experiments are conducted. Experimental results on gray images and colorful RGB images verify its superiority. |
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Keywords: | Image encryption Privacy protection Compressive sensing Coupled dictionary learning Image cryptosystem |
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