Image encryption has emerged as a critical domain in information security, addressing escalating demands from multimedia communication, medical imaging, and IoT applications. This book documents our research and innovations in advanced image encryption frameworks. Specifically, we focus on: 1) developing novel cryptographic architectures integrating hyperchaotic systems, quantum computing, and bio-inspired encoding (DNA/RNA-based), and 2) optimizing security-efficiency trade-offs through hardware acceleration and error-resilient designs, with applications spanning real-time video encryption, secure compression, and noisy channel transmission. Dr. Zhilong Xie and Dr. Taiyong Li are professors at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Wei Fan is a SWUFE Ph.D. student. They have authored over 110 papers in top journals and conferences, including KBS, ASOC, Neurocomputing, ESWA, TVCJ, IOTJ, CVPR, and AAAI.
