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Image Enhancement in Encrypted Domain over Cloud

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 11, Issue 3

Article No.: 38, Pages 1 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/2656205

Published: 05 February 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Cloud-based multimedia systems are becoming increasingly common. These systems offer not only storage facility, but also high-end computing infrastructure which can be used to process data for various analysis tasks ranging from low-level data quality enhancement to high-level activity and behavior identification operations. However, cloud data centers, being third party servers, are often prone to information leakage, raising security and privacy concerns. In this article, we present a Shamir's secret sharing based method to enhance the quality of encrypted image data over cloud. Using the proposed method we show that several image enhancement operations such as noise removal, antialiasing, edge and contrast enhancement, and dehazing can be performed in encrypted domain with near-zero loss in accuracy and minimal computation and data overhead. Moreover, the proposed method is proven to be information theoretically secure.

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DOI:10.1145/2733235

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Published: 05 February 2015

Accepted: 01 August 2014

Revised: 01 June 2014

Received: 01 February 2014

Published in TOMM Volume 11, Issue 3

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