Machine Learning to improve Encryption algorithms Can machine learning be used to improve encryption algorithms e.g.image encryption algorithms that use ECC ?
No. There is large consensus that:

There is nothing special about image encryption algorithm, they are just encryption algorithms.
ECC is useful for such algorithms inasmuch as they need to be made public-key. That's done by way of hybrid cryptography. Directly encrypting images with ECC cryptography would have terrible performance, thus is not worth serious consideration.
There's no clear need to improve any of these algorithms in a way where machine learning seems to be necessary or even helpful.

In a quite different direction: Machine learning also has a poor track record at attacking modern cryptographic algorithms, but that idea may not be worthless. Perhaps machines one day will learn cryptanalysis.