SBPG: A Secure Better Portable Graphics Compression Architecture for High Speed Trusted Image Communication in the IoT

This paper proposes a hardware architecture for a Secure Digital Camera (SDC) integrated with Secure Better Portable Graphics (SBPG) compression algorithm. The proposed architecture is suitable for high performance imaging in the Internet of Things (IoT). The objectives of this paper are twofold. On the one hand, the proposed SBPG architecture offers double layer protection: encryption and watermarking. On the other hand, the paper proposes SDC integrated with secure BPG compression for real time intelligent traffic surveillance (ITS). The experimental results prove that the new compression technique BPG outperforms JPEG in terms of compression quality and size of the compression file. As the visual quality of the watermarked and compressed images improves with larger values of PSNR, the results show that the proposed SBPG substantially increases the quality of the watermarked compressed images. To achieve a high performance architecture three techniques are considered: first, using the center portion of the image to insert the encrypted signature. Second, watermarking is done in the frequency domain using block-wise DCT size 8 x 8. Third, in BPG encoder, the proposed architecture uses inter and intra prediction to reduce the temporal and spatial redundancy.