Abstract: With the substantial increase in image transmission, the demand for image security is increasing. Noise-like images can be obtained by conventional encryption schemes, and although the security of the images can be guaranteed, the noise-like images cannot be directly previewed and retrieved. Based on the rank-then-encipher method, some researchers have designed a three-pixel exact thumbnail preserving encryption (TPE2) scheme, which can be applied to balance the security and availability of images, but this scheme has low encryption efficiency. In this paper, we introduce an efficient exact thumbnail preserving encryption scheme. First, blocking and bit-plane decomposition operations are performed on the plaintext image. The zigzag scrambling model is used to change the bit positions in the lower four bit planes. Subsequently, an operation is devised to permute the higher four bit planes, which is an extended application of the hidden Markov model. Finally, according to the difference in bit weights in each bit plane, a bit-level weighted diffusion rule is established to generate an encrypted image and still maintain the same sum of pixels within the block. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the encryption efficiency and can guarantee the availability of images while protecting their privacy.

TPE-H2MWD:基于隐马尔科夫模型和分权扩散的精确缩略图保留加密方案

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