A novel steganalysis method with deep learning for different texture complexity images

Abstract

Most steganalysis methods based on deep learning don’t distinguish the image texture complexity, but rather to mix all images for training. As a result, the differences of image content between images with different texture complexities are larger than the differences caused by steganographic signal, which is unfavourable for extracting the effective stegananalysis features. In order to reduce the influence of image content difference on steganalysis performance, this paper propose a steganalyais framework adopting the method of training model separately on dividing data sets. Firstly, according to the image texture feature, some correlated statistical features of gray level co-occurrence matrix are used as a measure index of texture complexity, and the data set is divided into several subsets of different complexity according to the index. Secondly, for images with different texture complexities, the corresponding steganalysis models are constructed and trained by using Most Effective Region (MER) and Inception ideas, respectively. For an image to be detected, its texture complexity is calculated first and the corresponding model is used for detection. Finally, an ensemble learning method is used to further improve the framework precision. The experimental results show that our proposed steganalysis method outperforms the handcrafted-features-based steganalysis methods and several CNN-based methods in detection accuracy.