Digital hologram encryption using discrete wavelet packet transform

In this paper, key components of a digital hologram were tracked using discrete wavelet packet transform to propose an encryption. Information needed to handle digital holograms were obtained by analyzing the characteristic of digital holograms in the Fresnel and frequency domains. By integrating the information that was experimentally obtained, an encryption method that uses the wavelet transform and subband packetization was proposed. Thus it is possible to change the encryption strength by changing the level of wavelet transform and the energy value of the coefficients to be encrypted. Optimal parameters can be found by analyzing the encryption effect numerically and visually. Therefore, it is possible to execute the encryption efficiently using the parameters presented in this paper without a separate analysis process. The experimental results showed that encrypting only 0.032% of the entire data was enough to hide the contents of the hologram. Here, we regarded the key to encrypt the subband packetization information as the overall encryption key.