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An Enhanced NPCR (ENPCR) Metric with Improved Image/ Video Frame Security

2025· article· W7127280863 on OpenAlexaff
Ahmed B. Mahmood, Anthony Vannelli

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicChaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Canadian institutionsBeef Farmers of OntarioUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEncryptionRobustness (evolution)PixelMetric (unit)CryptographyFrame (networking)PlaintextCipher

Abstract

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Transmitted data face many challenges during transmission to achieve data security. Securing transmitted multimedia data can be obtained through images and videos encryption for confidentiality purposes. Hackers usually try to implement several attacks including differential attack to get the original plaintext image/ video frame through revealing the encryption key. Evaluation metrics are applied to test the robustness of the applied encryption algorithm against various attacks. Metrics are based on statistical measures such as number of pixels change rate (NPCR). Image contrast is not sensitive while changing pixel intensity few values and the resulting image may still reveal the details of the original image. For example, applying encryption using Caesar Cipher with a small key value such as 1 or 2. Nevertheless, the NPCR of the resulted image is 100% which is the ultimate goal. This is a considerable flaw and resulted from the core function of the NPCR equation. This research proposes an enhancement to the NPCR metric based on the difference of intensity values introducing enhanced NPCR (ENPCR). Linear and non-linear core functions were proposed and tested instead of the current binary core function to provide a better NPCR performance. The results presented show that approaching non-linear core functions are more accurate than utilizing a linear function. On the other hand, the processing time and complexity of a linear function makes it preferable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.824
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.009
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.005
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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