Digital image protection by means of cryptographic mixing transformations

Adriana Vlad; Mihai Petru Mitrea

doi:10.1117/12.432892

29 June 2001 Digital image protection by means of cryptographic mixing transformations

Adriana Vlad, Mihai Petru Mitrea

Proceedings Volume 4430, ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432892
Event: ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics, 2000, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

A lot of research studies have been devoted to image protection, either by cryptographic methods (e.g. Opt. Eng. 35, Sept. 1996) or by watermarking techniques (e.g. Proc. SPIE Vol. 3971). In a previous study, the authors reconsidered and improved the cryptographic mixing transformations proposed by CE Shannon for natural language, obtaining a strong cipher for images, as well. The present paper goes deeply inside of the image protection problem: (1) by presenting some variants for the cryptographic mixing transformations which are good even when burst errors appear in the cryptogram; (2) by enabling the use of an m-gram substitution in the mixing functions; (3) by advancing a bridge between cryptographic methods and watermarking techniques. The illustrations are obtained out of processing: (a) computer-simulated random images obeying different probability laws and autocorrelation functions, (b) natural images, and (c) test images.

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Adriana Vlad and Mihai Petru Mitrea "Digital image protection by means of cryptographic mixing transformations", Proc. SPIE 4430, ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics, (29 June 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432892

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