Kaiser J. Giri (editor) - Multimedia Security: Algorithm Development, Analysis and Applications (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)

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The contemporary multimedia communication has converted the world into a global village. The digitization of sensitive multimedia, its storage and transmission over the Internet has increased massively. There is an exponential increase in the use of the Internet for applications in healthcare, commercial, government, and industrial sectors because of improved networked technology and computing power. The advantages of a completely digital system include ease of data management, cost reduction, high speed, and reliability among many others. However, there is a possibility of encountering numerous threats like phishing attacks, malware, ransomware, unauthorized access, and tampering of the digital content. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that digital information is secured and objectives of confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation are fulfilled. One of the most important challenges is to develop algorithms that can protect sensitive data. Sensitive multimedia can include text files, audios, images, and videos. However, images form a large percentage of the transmitted and stored content and therefore need to be secured completely. This book shall serve as a comprehensive reference to multimedia security and copyright protection, and it deliberates on various enabling technologies in the field. It provides a good account of multimedia security, quality metrics that govern security, and algorithm development for multimedia secure transmission.

Multimedia security technologies broadly include cryptography and information hiding. Cryptography transforms data into an observable meaningless form and includes variants like symmetric-key- and asymmetric-key-based algorithms and more recently have included techniques like chaos-based encryption and DNA encryption. The security of the cryptosystem lies in the secrecy of the key and as such requires proper key management techniques. Information hiding methods on the other hand hide the complete existence and possibility of a secret into a cover media and can be divided into major domains like steganography, watermarking, multimedia mining, and digital forensics. Steganography deals with the optimization of algorithms for embedding secret data into cover images such that embedding capacity is increased without affecting the detectability, whereas digital watermarking is concerned with embedding a small number of bits into a document such that it is protected from forgery. The watermark can be robust, fragile, visible, or concealed and is mainly embedded for copyright protection of the data.

This book provides an in-depth explanation of several robust security algorithms aiming to provide confidentiality and authenticity to digital multimedia content. It attempts to include novel research works about several aspects of multimedia security which are generally not much investigated. The book is mainly divided into three main parts. Part I: Security Using Cryptography and Chaotic Theory: Algorithm Development and Analysis