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Robust Privacy-Preserving Image Sharing over Online Social Networks (OSNs)

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Yuan Yan TangAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 14, Issue 1

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/3165265

Published: 04 January 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Sharing images online has become extremely easy and popular due to the ever-increasing adoption of mobile devices and online social networks (OSNs). The privacy issues arising from image sharing over OSNs have received significant attention in recent years. In this article, we consider the problem of designing a secure, robust, high-fidelity, storage-efficient image-sharing scheme over Facebook, a representative OSN that is widely accessed. To accomplish this goal, we first conduct an in-depth investigation on the manipulations that Facebook performs to the uploaded images. Assisted by such knowledge, we propose a DCT-domain image encryption/decryption framework that is robust against these lossy operations. As verified theoretically and experimentally, superior performance in terms of data privacy, quality of the reconstructed images, and storage cost can be achieved.

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Robust Privacy-Preserving Image Sharing over Online Social Networks (OSNs)
1. Information systems
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2. Security and privacy
  1. Software and application security
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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 14, Issue 1

February 2018

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DOI:10.1145/3173554

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Published: 04 January 2018

Accepted: 01 November 2017

Revised: 01 September 2017

Received: 01 April 2017

Published in TOMM Volume 14, Issue 1

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