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A selective encryption scheme for protecting H.264/AVC video in multimedia social network

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Aiming to protect H.264/AVC video in multimedia social network, a selective encryption scheme is put forward. In the scheme, after analyzing the impact of quantization parameter (QP) on the encryption of the sign of T1 s and the impact of encrypting inter-macroblock non-zero coefficients, the sign of intra-macroblock non-zero DCT coefficients, the sign of trailing ones (T1 s), the intra prediction modes (IPMs) and the sign of motion vector difference (MVD) are encrypted to protect the texture and motion information of H.264/AVC. Experimental results and analysis show that the computation cost is low and the bitrate increment is negligible, and it can achieve good performance in resisting brute-force attacks, histogram-based attacks and replacement attacks. Based on the encryption scheme, a framework of its implementation in multimedia social network is put forward. It has great potential to be implemented for the video data protection in multimedia social network.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61370225, 61572182), project supported by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.15JJ2007), supported by the Scientific Research Plan of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department of China (2014FJ4161), supported by Project of the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and supported by Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology.

Thank for the reviewers and the guest editor for their kind suggestions.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410082, China

    Fei Peng & Xiao-qing Gong

  2. College of Computer and Communication Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410014, China

    Min Long

  3. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210044, China

    Xing-ming Sun

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Peng, F., Gong, Xq., Long, M. et al. A selective encryption scheme for protecting H.264/AVC video in multimedia social network. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 3235–3253 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3710-x

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