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A selective encryption scheme of CABAC based on video context in high efficiency video coding

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In this paper, we propose a selective encryption scheme with a chaotic encryption system for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in which Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) is the only entropy coder for transform coefficient coding. Our method focuses on the binstrings of truncated rice with a context “p” (TRp) code suffix and kth order Exp-Golomb (k = p + 1) code suffix before Binary Arithmetic Coding (BAC) for the remaining absolute level coding, which is coded by the bypass mode in the entropy coding stage. The probability of symbols does not change and CABAC decoding has no effect after encryption. Several different YUV sequences are used for experimental evaluation of the proposed algorithm. Compared to previous researches, our approach has good protection for video information, which keeps a constant bitrate and format compatibility, and meantime it has a negligible impact on encoding performance.

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This work was supported by Key Laboratory of Data Link Technology of CETC, Xi’An, China

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Jianggan District, China

    Jianjun Li, Chenyan Wang & Xie Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of Data Link Technology of CETC, Xi’An, China

    Zheng Tang & Guobao Hui

  3. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Chin-Chen Chang

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Li, J., Wang, C., Chen, X. et al. A selective encryption scheme of CABAC based on video context in high efficiency video coding. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 12837–12851 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4916-2

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