PPIRB:Achieving an privacy-preserving image retrieval scheme Based on Blockchain

Abstract

With the proliferation of cloud services, the work of large-scale image retrieval is carried out on remote cloud become a trend in order to get rid of the storage burden and computation. However, traditional retrieval work based on centralized cloud services is considered to take risk in giving away users' privacy in many researches. We need a secure way for retrieving and storing images by decentralized approach. In this paper, we propose a decentralized scheme named PPIRB(An Privacy-Preserving Image Retrieval Scheme Base on Blockchain) for retrieving images based on blockchain. We used the data structure called amplifying locality sensitive hashing (ALSH) to improve search accuracy. Searchable symmetric en-cryption(SSE) and ALSH used to realize the encryption retrieval of image index on the blockchain. Our scheme also uses IPFS to replace the cloud server to realize distributed storage, and uses secret sharing scheme to realize the access control. We implemented and evaluated the scheme in Ethereum, and the results show that our scheme is efficient and accurate in finding similar images while preserving privacy. The overall overhead is reasonable.