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Abstract
A novel approach for secure image transmission is
presented. Objective of this approach is to increase the
quality of the retrieved image. In the proposed technique
secret fragment visible mosaic image is automatically
generated by using the secret image and the preselected
target image. The mosaic image looking similar to the target
image and may be utilized as the disguise of the secret
image, is created by partitioning the secret image into
segments and changing the color characteristics to be those
of the relating blocks of the target image. To perform the
color conversion many dexterous procedures are developed
for retrieving the secret image nearly losslessly. By using a
lossless data hiding method, the information needed to
retrieve the secret image is implanted to the mosaic image
using a key. To show the accuracy of the proposed method
experimental results are analyzed.
Index terms: mosaic image, secure image transmission,
color conversion, data hiding
I. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, data transmissions through internet are
limited due to various attacks present in it. Applications like
confidential enterprise archives, medical imaging, and
military image database etc. transfer private or confidential
images through internet. So they should be protected from
various security problems during data transmission. Two
commonly used approaches for secure transmissions are
data hiding and image encryption.
Image encryption is done by using natural
properties of an image such as high redundancy and spatial
correlation to get an encrypted image. The noise image is a
meaningless file, so that no one can obtain the secret image
without the correct key. However, the encrypted image is a
noise image which cannot provide any information before
decryption and due its randomness may evoke a hackers
attention during transmission. To avoid this problem data
hiding methods are used, that hides secret message into
cover image so that no one can realize the presence of the
secret data. Main drawback of data hiding method is the
difficulty to apply a large amount of message data into
single image.
To solve the drawback of image encryption and
data hiding a new method called secret fragment visible
mosaic images are developed, which transforms
automatically a large volume secret image into a meaningful
mosaic image with the same size and looking similar to the
preselected target image. Conversion process is controlled
by a secret key and only with the key a person can recover
the secret image losslessly. The mosaic image is obtained by
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Secret
image
Divide into
n target
blocks
Divide into
n tile
images
Find mean
and
standard
deviation
Find mean
and
standard
deviation
Embed
relevant
information
Rotate tile
images into
direction with
minimum
RMSE
Retrieve
secret
image
Extract
embedded
information
Fit tile
images and
target blocks
according to
standard
deviation
Color
transformation
between tile
images and
target blocks
Mosaic
image
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V. ALGORITHM
METHOD
FLOW
OF
PROPOSED
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(a)
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(b)
(b)
(c)
(c)
(d)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Fig.3. Comparison of results of proposed method and
existing method. (a) Input secret image (b) preselected target
image (c) mosaic image generated using existing method (d)
retrieved secret image in the existing method (e) mosaic
image generated using proposed method (f) retrieved secret
image in the proposed method.
(e)
Fig.2. Experimental result of proposed method. (a) Input
secret image (b) preselected target image (c) mosaic image
generated with tile image size 88 (d) retrieved image using
correct key (e) retrieved image using wrong key.
To show the retrieved secret image is identical to
the input secret image, parameters called PSNR (peak signal
to noise ratio), RMSE (root mean square error) and MSSIM
(mean structural similarity) are considered. That is, square
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30
proposed
method
20
existing
method
10
0
8*8
16*16 32*32
RMSE
(a)
50
40
30
20
10
0
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proposed
method
existing
method
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16*16 32*32
(b)
1
MSSIM
0.8
proposed
method
0.6
0.4
existing
method
0.2
0
8*8
16*16 32*32
(c)
Fig.4. Plots of various parameters of existing and proposed
method. (a) PSNR of input secret image and retrieved
image. (b) RMSE value of input secret image and retrieved
image. (c) MSSIM of input secret image and retrieved
image.
Fig.4. shows the plot of PSNR, RMSE, MSSIM
value of proposed method and existing method to compare
the performance. From the plots it can be seen that the
PSNR value of input secret image and retrieved secret image
is high in the proposed method comparing to the existing
method. When comparing to the existing method, this
method gives good PSNR value and MSSIM of secret image
and retrieved image, thereby giving a high accuracy
retrieved image.
Also we can see that, when size of tile image increase,
RMSE value increases and the value of PSNR and MSSIM
decreases.
Finally, this experiment can be repeated using
different images as target image and secret image.
VII. CONCLUSION
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