Zhihua Xia1,*, Lihua Lu1, Tong Qiu1, H. J. Shim1, Xianyi Chen1, Byeungwoo Jeon2
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.1, pp. 27-43, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.02688
Abstract Content based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques have been widely deployed in many applications for seeking the abundant information existed in images. Due to large amounts of storage and computational requirements of CBIR, outsourcing image search work to the cloud provider becomes a very attractive option for many owners with small devices. However, owing to the private content contained in images, directly outsourcing retrieval work to the cloud provider apparently bring about privacy problem, so the images should be protected carefully before outsourcing. This paper presents a secure retrieval scheme for the encrypted images in the… More >