Evaluation of Image Scrambling Degree with Intersecting Cortical Model Neural Network

Scrambling transformation plays an important role in information hiding application, so offering an effective evaluation method for scrambling algorithms is becoming increasingly necessary. The paper firstly analyzed the Arnold transformation process to get some universal rules about the periodicity of scrambling process, then used the improved Intersecting Cortical Model Neural Network (ICMNN) designed especially to extract 1D signatures of the original image and scrambled images which could effectively reflect the image structure changing processing. Finally L1 norm was adopted to evaluate the scrambling degree and the universal rules obtained above were used to verify the results. The experimental results showed that the proposed method could analyze and evaluate the scrambling degree efficiently and had a promising application future.