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Cybersecurity framework of hybrid watermarking and selective encryption for secure HEVC communication

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Recently, the digital multimedia cybersecurity has become a research topic of interest due to the fast development of real-time multimedia applications over public networks such as the Internet. Therefore, this research paper introduces an efficient cybersecurity framework for protecting the high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) frames. The suggested selective cybersecurity HEVC framework employs a robust hybrid technique based on watermarking and selective encryption for maintaining confidentiality and achieving copyright protection of the transmitted HEVC information. The watermarking method employs the Homomorphic transform and singular value decomposition in the discrete wavelet transform to increase the immunity of watermarked HEVC streams to attacks. Moreover, the selective encryption technique uses the Chaotic logistic map for encrypting the motion vector difference and the discrete cosine transform sign bits to provide the feature of HEVC format compliance with low encryption overhead cost. An extensive security investigation is carried out for the proposed selective HEVC cybersecurity framework. The obtained experimental outcomes ensure and validate the effectiveness of the selective HEVC cybersecurity framework for HEVC sequences transmission.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, Taif University, Saudi Arabia for funding the research Project Number 1-439-6083.

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This study was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Taif University, Saudi Arabia under research Project Number 1-439-6083.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

    Osama S. Faragallah, Mohammed A. AlZain & Jehad F. Al-Amri

  2. Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt

    Walid El-Shafai, El-Sayed M. EL-Rabaie & Fathi E. Abd El-Samie

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt

    Ahmed I. Sallam

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 61519, Egypt

    Ibrahim Elashry

  5. Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

    Ashraf Afifi

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Menoufia University, Shebin El-kom, 32511, Egypt

    Hala S. El-sayed

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Faragallah, O.S., El-Shafai, W., Sallam, A.I. et al. Cybersecurity framework of hybrid watermarking and selective encryption for secure HEVC communication. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 13, 1215–1239 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-02832-z

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