Secure Image Retrieval Scheme in the Encrypted Domain.

Currently, the image retrieval methods focus on improving the retrieval performance, but ignoring preserving the problem of preserving privacy. Images contain a great deal of personal privacy information, and leakage of information will result in seriously negative effect. Ensuring the image retrieval performance while preserving the confidentiality of data has become the key issue in the field of image retrieval. Based on the Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), we propose a secure image retrieval scheme in the encrypted domain, where the encrypted features can be used in similarity comparison directly. This paper compares the ciphertext retrieval with plaintext retrieval to illustrate that the proposed scheme could achieve the comparable retrieval performance, while ensuring the image information security at the same time.