WISERNet: Wider Separate-then-reunion Network for Steganalysis of Color Images

作     者：Zeng, Jishen Tan, Shunquan Liu, Guangqing Li, Bin Huang, Jiwu 

作者机构：Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology Shenzhen University Shenzhen518060 China College of Computer Science and Software Engineering Shenzhen University Guangdong Key Lab. of Intelligent Info. Processing and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Media Security Shenzhen University Shenzhen518060 China Peng Cheng Laboratory Shenzhen518052 China 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2018年

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主　　题：Steganography 

摘      要：Until recently, deep steganalyzers in spatial domain have been all designed for gray-scale images. In this paper, we propose WISERNet (the wider separate-then-reunion network) for steganalysis of color images. We provide theoretical rationale to claim that the summation in normal convolution is one sort of linear collusion attack which reserves strong correlated patterns while impairs uncorrelated noises. Therefore in the bottom convolutional layer which aims at suppressing correlated image contents, we adopt separate channel-wise convolution without summation instead. Conversely, in the upper convolutional layers we believe that the summation in normal convolution is beneficial. Therefore we adopt united normal convolution in those layers and make them remarkably wider to reinforce the effect of linear collusion attack. As a result, our proposed wide-and-shallow, separate-then-reunion network structure is specifically suitable for color image steganalysis. We have conducted extensive experiments on color image datasets generated from BOSSBase raw images and another large-scale dataset which contains 100,000 raw images, with di_erent demosaicking algorithms and downsampling algorithms. The experimental results show that our proposed network outperforms other state-of-the-art color image steganalytic models either hand-crafted or learned using deep networks in the literature by a clear margin. Specifically, it is noted that the detection performance gain is achieved with less than half the complexity compared to the most advanced deeplearning steganalyzer as far as we know, which is scarce in the literature. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.