Secure real-time image protection scheme with near-duplicate detection in cloud computing

• DOI: 10.1007/s11554-019-00887-6
• Publication Date: 2019-06-03T17:51:44Z
• Authors: Dengzhi Liu; Jian Shen; Anxi Wang; Chen Wang
• Keywords: Security Analysis; Cloud storage; Data deduplication

With advancements in technologies of the Internet and multi-media, various images need to be generated and transmitted anytime. Restricted by local constrained storage space, users can store their images with the assist of the cloud. However, the cloud is a remote semi-trusted party that may extract stored images for adversaries due to monetary reasons. In this paper, a secure real-time image protection scheme is proposed, which can be used to enhance the security of the stored images in cloud computing. Moreover, the convergent encryption is used to construct our scheme, which can provide functionalities of image deduplication checking and near-duplicate detection for the image owner. To improve the efficiency of the near-duplicate detection, deep learning is exploited in our scheme to extract images. Security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can meet the security requirements of correctness and security. Performance analysis shows that the proposed scheme can be performed with low computational cost.