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Anti-rounding Image Steganography with Separable Fine-tuned Network
Yin,Xiaolin1; Wu,Shaowu1; Wang,Ke1; Lu,Wei1; Zhou,Yicong2; Huang,Jiwu3
2023
Source PublicationIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
ISSN1051-8215
Volume33Issue:11Pages:7066-7079
Abstract

Image steganographic methods based on encoder-decoder model with end-to-end network architecture recently have been proposed. However, in steganographic applications, the feature map (called stego matrix) generated by the encoder needs to be rounded as a real stego image for the receiver. The loss of precision by rounding stego matrix leads to the decline in the accuracy of extracted secret messages. The challenge of using end-to-end network to preserve robustness against rounding operation is that it is non-differentiable. In this paper, we propose an anti-rounding image steganography method with separable fine-tuning network architecture which includes the joint training stage (JT-stage) and the separable fine-tuning stage (SF-stage). Firstly, in JT-stage, an embedded generator and a stego matrix extractor are jointly learned without rounding operation. Utilizing concatenation in embedded generator can realistically fuse cover image and secret messages. And the multi-scale fusion block and residual dense block in stego matrix extractor can make secret messages more correctly decoded. Moreover, the discriminator is constructed by generative adversarial nets (GAN) in JT-stage to effectively improve the authenticity and steganalysis security. Then, in SF-stage, the embedded generator is frozen, and the stego matrix is obtained and rounded as a stego image. A stego image extractor is constructed by fine-tuning the layers of the stego matrix extractor to improve the accuracy of message extraction. As the loss will not backpropagate in the embedded generator, the non-differentiability of rounding operation can be offset. Experiments show that the proposed separation fine-tuning network is robust to rounding operation, and effectively reduces the degradation of the image quality and steganalysis performance.

KeywordAnti-rounding Data Mining Decoding Feature Extraction Generative Adversarial Networks Generators Image Steganography Precision Loss Separable Fine-tuned Network Steganography Training
DOI10.1109/TCSVT.2023.3269468
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaEngineering
WOS SubjectEngineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS IDWOS:001093434100059
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85159656004
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Science and Technology
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorLu,Wei
Affiliation1.School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and Advanced Computing, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
2.Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau, China
3.Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Key Laboratory of Media Security, and Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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Yin,Xiaolin,Wu,Shaowu,Wang,Ke,et al. Anti-rounding Image Steganography with Separable Fine-tuned Network[J]. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2023, 33(11), 7066-7079.
APA Yin,Xiaolin., Wu,Shaowu., Wang,Ke., Lu,Wei., Zhou,Yicong., & Huang,Jiwu (2023). Anti-rounding Image Steganography with Separable Fine-tuned Network. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 33(11), 7066-7079.
MLA Yin,Xiaolin,et al."Anti-rounding Image Steganography with Separable Fine-tuned Network".IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 33.11(2023):7066-7079.
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