Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an image encryption method based on multi-scale compressed sensing and a Markov model. According to the difference in information carried by low-frequency coefficients and high-frequency coefficients of an image, different sampling rates are set for the low-frequency coefficients and the high-frequency coefficients of the image, which can effectively improve the reconstruction quality of a decrypted image. The decrypted image obtained by the present disclosure has higher quality than the decrypted image generated by the existing scheme, and a better visual effect and more complete original image information can be obtained.