An Improved Secure Image Transmission Technique via Mosaic Images by Nearly Reversible Color Transformations

Freddy Acosta Buenaño, Gonzalo Olmedo Cifuentes, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, José Luis Rojo Álvarez

2017

Abstract

Current multimedia communication systems seek to transmit images supporting contents by the data stream, which requires specific effort for their bandwidth optimization. In this scenario, security of data and information that is being transmitted is highly relevant. A new concept has been recently used in the field of secure image transmission, known as secret-fragment-visible mosaic image. In this case, a mosaic image is created and used as a camouflage for a secret image. The mosaic image is similar to a target image freely chosen. We propose here a technique based on a statistical simplification approach to reduce the number of required bits for recovering the secret image from the mosaic image. We benchmarked the performance of the method and the quality of the recovered image. Experimental results showed that the number of bits with the proposed method was dramatically reduced (close to 3 to 1), and quality metrics were about Root Mean Squared Error of 32 and Mean Structural Similarity of 0.7 for the created mosaic image. Our proposal paves the way towards improved procedures that are suitable for multimedia systems like digital terrestrial television and similar applications.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Acosta Buenaño F., Olmedo Cifuentes G., Mora-Jiménez I. and Rojo Álvarez J. (2017). An Improved Secure Image Transmission Technique via Mosaic Images by Nearly Reversible Color Transformations . In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-260-8, pages 87-92. DOI: 10.5220/0006477900870092

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap17,
author={Freddy Acosta Buenaño and Gonzalo Olmedo Cifuentes and Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez and José Luis Rojo Álvarez},
title={An Improved Secure Image Transmission Technique via Mosaic Images by Nearly Reversible Color Transformations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={87-92},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006477900870092},
isbn={978-989-758-260-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2017)
TI - An Improved Secure Image Transmission Technique via Mosaic Images by Nearly Reversible Color Transformations
SN - 978-989-758-260-8
AU - Acosta Buenaño F.
AU - Olmedo Cifuentes G.
AU - Mora-Jiménez I.
AU - Rojo Álvarez J.
PY - 2017
SP - 87
EP - 92
DO - 10.5220/0006477900870092