ImageProof: Enabling authentication for large-scale image retrieval

Shangwei Guo, Jianliang XU, Ce Zhang, Cheng Xu, Tao Xiang

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12 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

With the explosive growth of online images and the popularity of search engines, a great demand has arisen for small and medium-sized enterprises to build and outsource large-scale image retrieval systems to cloud platforms. While reducing storage and retrieval burdens, enterprises are at risk of facing untrusted cloud service providers. In this paper, we take the first step in studying the problem of query authentication for large-scale image retrieval. Due to the large size of image files, the main challenges are to (i) design efficient authenticated data structures (ADSs) and (ii) balance search, communication, and verification complexities. To address these challenges, we propose two novel ADSs, the Merkle randomized k-d tree and the Merkle inverted index with cuckoo filters, to ensure the integrity of query results in each step of image retrieval. For each ADS, we develop corresponding search and verification algorithms on the basis of a series of systemic design strategies. Furthermore, we put together the ADSs and algorithms to design the final authentication scheme for image retrieval, which we name ImageProof. We also propose several optimization techniques to improve the performance of the proposed ImageProof scheme. Security analysis and extensive experiments are performed to show the robustness and efficiency of ImageProof.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1070-1081
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781538674741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2019
Event35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019 - Macau, China
Duration: 8 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
Volume2019-April
ISSN (Print)1084-4627

Conference

Conference35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacau
Period8/04/1911/04/19

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems

User-Defined Keywords

  • Bag of visual word
  • Content based image retrieval
  • Query authentication
  • Verifiable

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