TCNN: Two-way convolutional neural network for image steganalysis

  • Zhili Chen*
  • , Baohua Yang
  • , Fuhu Wu
  • , Shuai Ren
  • , Hong Zhong
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have achieved significantly better performance compared to conventional methods based on hand-crafted features for image steganalysis. However, as far as we know, existing CNN based methods extract features either with constrained (even fixed), or random (i.e., randomly initialized) convolutional kernels, and this leads to limitations as follows. First, it is unlikely to obtain optimal results for exclusive use of constrained kernels due to the constraints. Second, it becomes difficult to get optimal when using merely random kernels because of the large parameter space to learn. In this paper, to overcome these limitations, we propose a two-way convolutional neural network (TCNN) for image steganalysis, by combining both constrained and random convolutional kernels, and designing respective sub-networks. Intuitively, by complementing one another, the combination of these two kinds of kernels can enrich features extracted, ease network convergence, and thus provide better results. Experimental results show that the proposed TCNN steganalyzer is superior to the state-of-the-art CNN-based and hand-crafted features-based methods, at different payloads.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecurity and Privacy in Communication Networks - 16th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2020, Proceedings
EditorsNoseong Park, Kun Sun, Sara Foresti, Kevin Butler, Nitesh Saxena
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages509-514
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783030630850
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2020 - Washington, United States
Duration: 21 Oct 202023 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume335
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period21/10/2023/10/20

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural network
  • Steganalysis
  • Two-way

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