IMAGE AUTHENTICATION BASED ON FRACTAL FEATURES

Fractals ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 287-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIGUO LIAN
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Image Authentication ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Natural Images ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Image Block ◽  
Authentication Code ◽  
Fractal Coding ◽  
Authentication Schemes ◽  
Common Signal

In this paper, the fractal features of natural images are used to construct an image authentication scheme, which can detect whether an image is maliciously tampered (cutting, wiping, modification, etc.) or not and can even locate the tampered regions. For the original image, the fractal transformation is applied to each of the image blocks, and some of the transformation parameters are quantized and used as the authentication code. The authentication code can be stored or transmitted secretly. To authenticate an image, the new authentication code is computed from the image with the similar method, and then compared with the stored or received code. A metric is proposed to decide whether an image block is tampered or not. Comparative experiments show that the authentication scheme can detect malicious tampering, is robust against such common signal processing as JPEG compression, fractal coding, adding noise or filtering, and thus, obtains competent performances compared with existing image authentication schemes.

scholarly journals Reversible image authentication scheme based on prediction error expansion

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Thai-Son Nguyen ◽  
Phuoc-Hung Vo
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Prediction Error ◽  
Image Authentication ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Image Block ◽  
Authentication Code ◽  
High Image Quality ◽  
Prediction Error Expansion ◽  
Error Expansion

<span>Reversible image authentication scheme is a technique that detects tampered areas in images and allows them to be reconstructed to their original version without any distortion. In this article, a new, reversible, image authentication scheme based on prediction error expansion is proposed for digital images. The proposed scheme classifies the host image into smooth blocks and complex blocks. Then, an authentication code that is created randomly with a seed is embedded adaptively into each image block. Experimental results showed that our proposed scheme achieves the high accuracy of tamper detection and preserved high image quality. Moreover, the proposed scheme achieved the reversibility, which is needed for some special applications, such as fine artwork, military images, and medical images. </span>

A Blind Image Watermarking Scheme Utilizing BTC Bitplanes

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Ning Yang ◽  
Zhe-Ming Lu
Keyword(s):  
Image Watermarking ◽  
Image Authentication ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Image Block ◽  
Watermark Embedding ◽  
Extraction Processes ◽  
Watermarking Scheme ◽  
Blind Image

This paper presents a novel image watermarking scheme utilizing Block Truncation Coding (BTC). This scheme uses BTC to guide the watermark embedding and extraction processes. During the embedding process, the original cover image is first partitioned into non-overlapping 4×4 blocks. Then, BTC is performed on each block to obtain its BTC bitplane, and the number of ‘1’s in the bitplane is counted. If the watermark bit to be embedded is ‘1’ and the number of ‘1’s is odd, or the watermark bit to be embedded is ‘0’ and the number of ‘1’s is even, then no change is made. Otherwise, by changing at most three pixels in the original image block, the number of ‘1’s (or ‘0’s) in the renewed bitplane are forced to be odd for the watermark bit ‘1’ or to be even for the watermark bit ‘0’. During the extraction process, BTC is first performed on each block to obtain its bitplane. If the number of ‘1’s in the bitplane is odd, then the embedded watermark bit is ‘1’. Otherwise, the embedded watermark bit is ‘0’. The experimental results show that the proposed watermarking method is semi-fragile except for the changes in brightness and contrast; therefore, the proposed method can be used for image authentication.

A novel tamper detection scheme for BTC-compressed images

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Hu ◽  
W. Chen ◽  
C. Lo ◽  
C. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Image Authentication ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Image Block ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
Good Image ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
Multiple Copies ◽  
Embedded Image

AbstractA novel image authentication scheme for the compressed images of block truncation coding (BTC) is proposed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, 1-bit authentication data is generated from the quantization levels of each image block. Multiple block permutations are generated by using the random sequences induced by the selected random number seeds. Multiple copies of the authenticaiton data are embedded into the bit maps of BTC-compressed image blocks based on the block permutations. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves good detecting accuracy while keeping good image quatiy of the embedded image.

scholarly journals BBAAS: Blockchain-Based Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Providing Secure Communication in VANETs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Azees Maria ◽  
Vijayakumar Pandi ◽  
Jeatha Deborah Lazarus ◽  
Marimuthu Karuppiah ◽  
Mary Subaja Christo
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Authentication Code ◽  
Coverage Area ◽  
Anonymous Authentication ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Authentication Schemes

Smart driving has become conceivable due to the rapid growth of vehicular ad hoc networks. VANETs are considered as the main platform for providing safety road information and instant vehicle communication. Nevertheless, due to the open wireless nature of communication channels, VANET is susceptible to security attacks by malicious users. For this reason, secure anonymous authentication schemes are essential in VANETs. However, when vehicles reach a new roadside unit (RSU) coverage area, the vehicles need to perform reauthentication with the current RSU, which significantly diminishes the efficiency of the entire VANET. Therefore, the introduction of blockchain technology has created opportunities for VANETs to resolve the aforementioned challenges. Due to the decentralized nature of blockchain technology, rapid reauthentication of vehicles is achieved in this paper through secure authentication code transfer between the consecutive RSUs. The security strength of the proposed blockchain-based anonymous authentication scheme against various harmful security attacks is proven in the security analysis section to ensure that it provides better security. In addition, blockchain, as presented in the performance analysis section, is used to substantially diminish the computational cost compared to conventional authentication schemes.

scholarly journals High-Precision Authentication Scheme Based on Matrix Encoding for AMBTC-Compressed Images

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su ◽  
Chang ◽  
Lin
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Image Authentication ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Authentication Code ◽  
Quantization Level ◽  
Tampering Detection ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
Matrix Encoding ◽  
The Matrix

In this paper, a high-precision image authentication scheme for absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC)-compressed images is presented. For each block, two sub-bitmaps are conducted using the symmetrical separation, and the six-bit authentication code is symmetrically assigned to two sub-codes, which is virtually embedded into sub-bitmaps using the matrix encoding later. To overcome distortion caused by modifications to the bitmap, the corresponding to-be-flipped bit-location information is recorded instead of flipping these bits of the bitmap directly. Then, the bit-location information is inserted into quantization levels based on adjusted quantization level matching. In contrast to previous studies, the proposed scheme offers a significantly improved tampering detection ability, especially in the first hierarchical tampering detection without remediation measures, with an average tampering detection rate of up to 98.55%. Experimental results show that our approach provides a more stable and reliable tampering detection performance and sustains an acceptable visual quality.

Secure Watermarking using Diophantine Equations for Authentication and Recovery

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayashree Nair ◽  
T. Padma
Keyword(s):  
Diophantine Equation ◽  
Diophantine Equations ◽  
Jpeg Compression ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Invariant Features ◽  
Jpeg2000 Compression ◽  
Frequency Properties ◽  
Visual Authentication

This paper describes an authentication scheme that uses Diophantine equations based generation of the secret locations to embed the authentication and recovery watermark in the DWT sub-bands. The security lies in the difficulty of finding a solution to the Diophantine equation. The scheme uses the content invariant features of the image as a self-authenticating watermark and a quantized down sampled approximation of the original image as a recovery watermark for visual authentication, both embedded securely using secret locations generated from solution of the Diophantine equations formed from the PQ sequences. The scheme is mildly robust to Jpeg compression and highly robust to Jpeg2000 compression. The scheme also ensures highly imperceptible watermarked images as the spatio –frequency properties of DWT are utilized to embed the dual watermarks.

A New Threshold Password Authentication Scheme

2010 ◽  
Vol 143-144 ◽  
pp. 915-919
Author(s):  
Yung Cheng Lee
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Network Infrastructure ◽  
Password Authentication ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
Authentication Schemes ◽  
Hoc Networks

The well-known password authentication mechanisms are widely used in networks to protect resources from unauthorized access. The ad hoc networks, due to their dynamic and lack of network infrastructure features, require authentication schemes to ensure security. In this paper, we propose a new threshold password authentication scheme for ad hoc networks. Our scheme can be efficiently implemented in mobile devices, and can achieve mutual authentication with registered users.

A CRYPTO SIGNATURE SCHEME FOR IMAGE AUTHENTICATION OVER WIRELESS CHANNEL

2005 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 135-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
QIBIN SUN ◽  
SHUIMING YE ◽  
CHING-YUNG LIN ◽  
SHIH-FU CHANG
Keyword(s):  
Packet Loss ◽  
Digital Signature ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Image Authentication ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Signature Scheme ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Degraded Images ◽  
Block Shuffling

With the ambient use of digital images and the increasing concern on their integrity and originality, consumers are facing an emergent need of authenticating degraded images despite lossy compression and packet loss. In this paper, we propose a scheme to meet this need by incorporating watermarking solution into traditional cryptographic signature scheme to make the digital signatures robust to these image degradations. Due to the unpredictable degradations, the pre-processing and block shuffling techniques are applied onto the image at the signing end to stabilize the feature extracted at the verification end. The proposed approach is compatible with traditional cryptographic signature scheme except that the original image needs to be watermarked in order to guarantee the robustness of its derived digital signature. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this proposed scheme through practical experimental results.

scholarly journals Image-to-Image Translation with Multi-Path Consistency Regularization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianxin Lin ◽  
Yingce Xia ◽  
Yijun Wang ◽  
Tao Qin ◽  
Zhibo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Images ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Target Domain ◽  
Source Domain ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Image Translation ◽  
The Difference

Image translation across different domains has attracted much attention in both machine learning and computer vision communities. Taking the translation from a source domain to a target domain as an example, existing algorithms mainly rely on two kinds of loss for training: One is the discrimination loss, which is used to differentiate images generated by the models and natural images; the other is the reconstruction loss, which measures the difference between an original image and the reconstructed version. In this work, we introduce a new kind of loss, multi-path consistency loss, which evaluates the differences between direct translation from source domain to target domain and indirect translation from source domain to an auxiliary domain to target domain, to regularize training. For multi-domain translation (at least, three) which focuses on building translation models between any two domains, at each training iteration, we randomly select three domains, set them respectively as the source, auxiliary and target domains, build the multi-path consistency loss and optimize the network. For two-domain translation, we need to introduce an additional auxiliary domain and construct the multi-path consistency loss. We conduct various experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods, including face-to-face translation, paint-to-photo translation, and de-raining/de-noising translation.

Digital Watermarking for Multimedia Transaction Tracking

2011 ◽  
pp. 52-86
Author(s):  
Dan Yu ◽  
Farook Sattar
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Independent Component Analysis ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Side Information ◽  
Original Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Watermark Embedding ◽  
Common Signal ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Watermarking Scheme

This chapter focuses on the issue of transaction tracking in multimedia distribution applications through digital watermarking terminology. The existing watermarking schemes are summarized and their assumptions as well as the limitations for tracking are analyzed. In particular, an Independent Component Analysis (ICA)-based watermarking scheme is proposed, which can overcome the problems of the existing watermarking schemes. Multiple watermarking technique is exploited—one watermark to identify the rightful owner of the work and the other one to identify the legal user of a copy of the work. In the absence of original data, watermark, embedding locations and strengths, the ICA-based watermarking scheme is introduced for efficient watermark extraction with some side information. The robustness of the proposed scheme against some common signal-processing attacks as well as the related future work are also presented. Finally, some challenging issues in multimedia transaction tracking through digital watermarking are discussed.

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