Research on multi-image encryption method based on image scaling and ghost imaging

Abstract

Optical information processing technology itself is characterized by high speed and parallelism, while the wavelength of light is short and the loading information capacity is large. Therefore, optical encryption is of great significance in the field of image encryption. For multi-image encryption, a multi-image encryption system (ISK-MGI) based on image scaling and ghost imaging is proposed in this paper. In the encryption process, image scaling is used to embed the image information to be encrypted into the artifact image to achieve the first step of artifact encryption; then the ghost imaging encryption is used to encrypt any of the artifact images and the intensity sequence obtained from the barrel detector is used as the cipher text; the integration property of Fourier transform is used to obtain the modulation patterns of other artifact images as the key. The feasibility, security and robustness of the scheme are verified by experiments and simulations. The scheme not only solves the image information crosstalk problem of multi-image encryption, but also has high security. Each image in this method has a primary public key and a secondary private key, which solves the potential risk of sharing public keys and provides a new idea for optical information encryption.