Image steganalysis based on convolutional neural network and feature selection

Abstract

SummarySteganalysis is to detect whether or not the seemly innocent image hiding message. It is an important research topic in information security. With the development of steganography technology, steganalysis becomes more and more difficult. Some steganalysis methods have been proposed to improve the performance. Most research work concentrates on special steganography information detection and the image steganography features are designed manually. Few research works concentrate on universal steganalysis methods. In this paper, as the first several attempts, a novel image steganalysis method based on deep neural network is proposed. First, image high‐frequency features are extracted with wavelet transformation method because that most image hiding message are high frequency. Second, high‐dimensional image steganography features are extracted with deep neural networks according to the high‐frequency images and informative features combination is selected with a novel feature selection method based on entropy. Then, a parallel SVM model is proposed to build the steganalysis model based on large scale training samples. At last, the efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated through analyzing a practical image steganalysis example.