Efficient Recoverable Cryptographic Mosaic Technique by Permutations

Elaine Y.N. Sun, Hsiao Chun Wu, Costas Busch, Scott C.H. Huang, Yen Cheng Kuan, Shih Yu Chang

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Abstract

Mosaic is a popular approach to provide privacy of data and image. However, the existing demosaicing techniques cannot accomplish efficient perfect-reconstruction. If the receiver wants to recover the original image, the extra transmission of the original subimage to be mosaicked is necessary, which consumes much channel resource and is therefore inefficient. In this paper, we propose a novel efficient recoverable cryptographic mosaic technique by permutations. A mosaic, or a privacy-protected subimage, can be constructed through either of the three permutations (Busch's, Wu's, and Sun's/Minmax). These three permutations are designed to maximize the objective function as the sum of the absolute row/column index-differences. This objective is related to the sum of the pixel-to-pixel cross-correlation by our pertinent theoretical study. To measure the effectiveness of the image-mosaicing methods, we propose two image-discrepancy measures, namely summed cross-correlation (SCC) and Kullback-Leibler divergence of discrete cosine transform (DCT-KLD). Compared to the big majority of random permutations for image-mosaicing, our proposed three permutation methods can achieve much better performances in terms of SCC. Nevertheless, the advantage of the three proposed permutation methods over random permutations is not obvious according to DCT-KLD.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number9011585
Pages (from-to)112-125
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Volume31
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD)
  • Kullback-Leibler divergence of discrete cosine transform (DCT-KLD)
  • Recoverable cryptographic mosaic
  • autoregressive (AR) model
  • permutation
  • summed cross-correlation (SCC)
  • two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (2D-DCT)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Media Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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