Protection of batch color images using a novel parallel cross-plane encryption scheme
摘要
The widespread application of batch color images in real-world scenarios such as multi-camera surveillance systems, cloud-based photo albums, and social media platforms has made their secure transmission a pressing concern. Existing encryption schemes often face practicality issues by mandating uniform image sizes and suffer from efficiency bottlenecks due to serial processing, especially with large-volume data. In this paper, we fully utilized the data structure of color images and proposed a parallel encryption scheme for protecting batch color images. Here, the color channels from different images are randomly grouped and encrypted in parallel. Furthermore, in each group, a simultaneous cross channel encryption strategy is leveraged to spread the encryption influence to other channels, which further improves the efficiency. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our scheme achieves a significant speedup, processing encryption tasks up to 36.3% faster than state-of-the-art serial methods, while maintaining competitive security metrics like an information entropy of 7.999, a correlation coefficient close to 0 and NPCR/UACI close to 99.609%/33.464%. These findings confirm that the proposed scheme offers a superior solution for real-world applications, successfully balancing high efficiency with robust security for batch color image protection.