“…Due to some intrinsic features of image data, such as bulk data capacity, high redundancy and high correlation among adjacent pixels, traditional cryptosystems, for example, International Data Encryption Algorithm(IDEA), Data Encryption Standard (DES), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), are unsuitable for image data encryption [1][2][3]. It is well known that chaos theory has many unique characteristics, such as ergodicity, pseudo randomness, sensitivity to initial conditions and control parameters [4], and these characteristics meet the requirements of diffusion and mixing in the sense of cryptography.…”