AQI-HNS: A Security-Aware Hybrid Framework for Quantum-Inspired Image Encryption and Neural Image Hiding with Cross-Dataset Evaluation
Digital-image protection often requires two safeguards at once: the content must remain unintelligible to an unauthorized reader, and the communication itself should not be conspicuous. We introduce AQI-HNS, an encryption-first framework that couples a reversible four-dimensional fractional-map cipher with a security-a...