HF-TPE: High-Fidelity Thumbnail- Preserving Encryption

With the popularity of cloud storage services, people are increasingly accustomed to storing images in the cloud. However, cloud storage services raise privacy concerns, e.g., leakage of images to unauthorized third parties and service providers may exploit image detection technologies to portrait u...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology 2022-03, Vol.32 (3), p.947-961
Main Authors: Zhang, Yushu, Zhao, Ruoyu, Xiao, Xiangli, Lan, Rushi, Liu, Zhe, Zhang, Xinpeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Algorithms
Balancing privacy and usability
Cloud computing
cloud storage
Encryption
Image detection
image encryption
Image quality
Indexes
Noise intensity
Privacy
Service introduction
Software
Storage
thumbnail
Thumbnail icons
Usability
User experience
Visualization
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Summary:With the popularity of cloud storage services, people are increasingly accustomed to storing images in the cloud. However, cloud storage services raise privacy concerns, e.g., leakage of images to unauthorized third parties and service providers may exploit image detection technologies to portrait users without permission. Although privacy concerns can be solved by encrypting images before they are uploaded to the cloud, traditional encryption methods significantly affect the usability and user experience, for example, users cannot preview images in the cloud. Recently, Marohn et al. proposed two approximate thumbnail-preserving encryption schemes, called DRPE and TPE-LSB, to balance the privacy and usability of images in the cloud. However, both schemes have defects that either the decryption may fail or the ciphertext images have poor performance in perceived quality and too many noise points after decryption. To this end, we pertinently propose a high-fidelity thumbnail-preserving encryption scheme (HF-TPE). Compared with the previous works, on the one hand, the HF-TPE scheme not only ensures the correct decryption of ciphertext images, but also makes the ciphertext thumbnails more close to the plaintext images perceptually. On the other hand, the decrypted thumbnails have lower noise intensity and upper limit of the number of noises. In addition, simulation experiments further show that the HF-TPE scheme can guarantee users' usability.
ISSN:1051-8215
1558-2205
DOI:10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3070348