An adjustable visual image cryptosystem based on 6D hyperchaotic system and compressive sensing

In this paper, an efficient and adjustable visual image encryption scheme is proposed by combining a 6D hyperchaotic system, compressive sensing, and Bezier curve embedding. First, the plain image is sparse by discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Then, the sparse image is encrypted and compressed through game-of-life (GOL) hybrid scrambling and compressive sensing into a cipher image. Next, Bezier curve embedding is utilized to embed the cipher image into the carrier image in wavelet domain. After these operations, the final visually meaningful steganographic image is generated. Additionally, the frequency-domain information of the plain image is used to generate the initial values of the 6D hyperchaotic system in scrambling process, which makes the proposed encryption scheme able to effectively resist the chosen-plaintext attacks (CPA) and the known-plaintext attacks (KPA). Moreover, our scheme exhibits excellent adjustable performance compared with existing related schemes. Ultimately, simulation results and comprehensive performance analyses demonstrate that the scheme proposed in this paper has high decryption quality, visual security, robustness, and operating efficiency.