Are parameterised biorthogonal wavelet filters suited (better) for selective encryption?

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Uhl;Andreas Pommer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria;University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Multimedia and security
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Selective encryption is used to encrypt parts of a bitstream, in our case images which are compressed by a wavelet based method. One approach is to keep the filter secret which is used for the transformation. Parameterised wavelet filters can be used to generate a large keyspace, however, in the case of orthogonal filters obtained by a variant of Pollen's factorisation it turns out that different parameters yield filters with very different quality and in particular worse quality as compared to the standard biorthogonal filters usually used for compression. To eventually overcome these limitations, we consider parametrisations of biorthogonal filters in this work. We discuss methods to create such filters, and show their properties regarding compression and encryption.