Digital image communication scheme based on the breakup of spiral waves

A digital image communication scheme based on the breakup of spiral waves is presented in this paper. This communication system does not require spatially homogeneous random initial conditions. Moreover, the secret image is not embedded into the initial conditions of the evolving self-organizing patterns. Such features increase the security of the communication, but still enable an effective transmission of the secret image. Computational experiments are used to demonstrate the properties and efficiency of the proposed scheme.