What is the ideal value of UACI for image encryption scheme?

UACI - Unified Averaged Changed Intensity between cipher images. Why some papers refer ideal value to be 33.33 and some refer it to be 33.46? Which is the correct value? (In reference to image...

11 February 2021 9,562 2 View

Should a better value for UACI be below or closer to ideal values or higher as possible?

The ideal theoretical value for UACI(Unified Average Changed Intensity) is 33.33% for testing the robustness of image encryption algorithm against differential attacks. Is it better to have a UACI...

30 January 2021 2,016 3 View

How to find the chi square test value for histograms of plain and cipher image?

I want to test the uniformness of values in histogram through chi-square analysis in an image encryption algorithm.

29 January 2021 4,093 2 View

What are different ways to compare the histogram of cipher images from various encryption schemes?

Is there a metric to find if one histogram of cipher image is better than other? I tried calculating the variance of the image but couldn't get the intended results. Are there ways to compare...

28 January 2021 479 3 View

How is the variance for an image exactly computed to test the uniformness of its histogram?

I am trying to compute the variance of a plain and cipher grayscale LENA image... I found in a paper that variance value is equal to 630780 for a plain Lena image while if I calculate I find it...

28 January 2021 8,036 5 View

Should the correlation between adjacent pixels in a cipher image be low or close to zero as possible?

This question in the relation to calculating the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal correlation of a cipher image in an encryption algorithm. I have read that the correlation values should be as...

13 January 2021 1,297 4 View

What are some of the efficient techniques used for image scrambling?

I am using 3D Arnold transform for my EC-ElGamal encryption technique but it consumes a lot of time during the execution of the program using Python. So I was wondering if there are BETTER ideas...

07 January 2021 205 2 View

What are the assumptions and limitations of Miner's rule ? Is there any better cumulative damage model available for steel?

What are the assumptions behind miner's rule? Is there any cumulative damage model that takes care of these assumptions?

14 December 2020 333 1 View

How do i code to get the correlation coefficient along horizontal, vertical and diagonal for plain and cipher images?

I am trying to do the correlation analysis for grayscale images and their ciphers in Python or MATLAB. But I don't understand how to code the same. Also, I didn't get any function or existing code...

01 December 2020 6,388 3 View

Is IMAGE ENCRYPTION using ECC a good research area?

There have been existing works like Singh and Singh(2015) and subsequently one in 2017 that performed Image encryption using ECC. But I have been seeing ppl comment that encryption with ECC is not...

14 October 2020 4,479 5 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

For modelling epoxy-based matrices (in composites), which model in ABAQUS is the most suitable, Concrete damaged plasticity or Drucker-Prager model?

I am working on developing a micromechanical FE model for predicting kink-band formation in UD composites. To model matrix plasticity, which model, out of Concrete Damaged Plasticity and...

28 February 2021 5,415 1 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View