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Protection of Colour Images by Selective Encryption

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This chapter presents methods for the protection of privacy associated with specific regions from colour images or colour image sequences. In the proposed approaches, regions of interest (ROI) are detected during the JPEG compression of the colour images and encrypted. The methodology presented in this book chapter performs simultaneously selective encryption (SE) and image compression. The SE is performed in a ROI and by using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The AES algorithm is used with the Cipher Feedback (CFB) mode and applied on a subset of the Huffman coefficients corresponding to the AC frequencies chosen according to the level of required security. In this study, we consider the encryption of colour images and image sequences compressed by JPEG and of image sequences compressed by motion JPEG. Our approach is performed without affecting the compression rate and by keeping the JPEG bitstream compliance. In the proposed method, the SE is performed in the Huffman coding stage of the JPEG algorithm without affecting the size of the compressed image. The most significant characteristic of the proposed method is the utilization of a single procedure to simultaneously perform the compression and the selective encryption rather than using two separate procedures. Our approach reduces the required computational complexity. We provide an experimental evaluation of the proposed method when applied on still colour images as well as on sequences of JPEG compressed images acquired with surveillance video cameras.

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    In order to display the image artifacts produced by our crypto-compression algorithm, we have cropped a sub-image of 416 ×200 pixels.

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  1. Laboratory LIRMM, UMR CNRS 5506, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

    W. Puech

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    A. G. Bors

  3. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil

    J. M. Rodrigues

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Puech, W., Bors, A.G., Rodrigues, J.M. (2013). Protection of Colour Images by Selective Encryption. In: Fernandez-Maloigne, C. (eds) Advanced Color Image Processing and Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6190-7_12

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