Although significant progress has been achieved recently in automatic learning of steganographic cost, the existing methods designed for spatial images cannot he directly applied to JPEG images which are more common media in daily life. The difficulties of migration are mainly caused by the characteristics of the 8 x 8 DCT mode structure. To address the issue, in this paper we extend an existing automatic cost learning scheme to JPEG, where the proposed scheme called JEC-RL (JPEG Embedding Cost with Reinforcement Learning) is explicitly designed to tailor the JPEG Der structure. It works with the embedding action sampling mechanism under reinforcement learning, where a policy network learns the optimal embedding policies via maximizing the rewards provided by an environment network. Following a domain-transition design paradigm, the policy network is composed of three modules, i.e., pixel-level texture complexity evaluation module, DCT feature extraction module, and mode-wise rearrangement module. These modules operate in serial, gradually extracting useful features from a decompressed JPEG image and converting them into embedding policies for DCT elements, while considering JPEG characteristics including inter-block and intra-block correlations simultaneously. The environment network is designed in a gradient-oriented way to provide stable reward values by using a wide architecture equipped with a fixed preprocessing layer with 8 x 8 DCT basis filters. Extensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve good security performance for JPEG images against both advanced feature-based and modern CNN-based steganalyzers.
Tang, W.x., Li, B., Barni, M., Li, J., Huang, J.w. (2022). Improving Cost Learning for JPEG Steganography by Exploiting JPEG Domain Knowledge. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, 32(6), 4081-4095 [10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3115600].
Improving Cost Learning for JPEG Steganography by Exploiting JPEG Domain Knowledge
Barni, M;
2022-01-01
Abstract
Although significant progress has been achieved recently in automatic learning of steganographic cost, the existing methods designed for spatial images cannot he directly applied to JPEG images which are more common media in daily life. The difficulties of migration are mainly caused by the characteristics of the 8 x 8 DCT mode structure. To address the issue, in this paper we extend an existing automatic cost learning scheme to JPEG, where the proposed scheme called JEC-RL (JPEG Embedding Cost with Reinforcement Learning) is explicitly designed to tailor the JPEG Der structure. It works with the embedding action sampling mechanism under reinforcement learning, where a policy network learns the optimal embedding policies via maximizing the rewards provided by an environment network. Following a domain-transition design paradigm, the policy network is composed of three modules, i.e., pixel-level texture complexity evaluation module, DCT feature extraction module, and mode-wise rearrangement module. These modules operate in serial, gradually extracting useful features from a decompressed JPEG image and converting them into embedding policies for DCT elements, while considering JPEG characteristics including inter-block and intra-block correlations simultaneously. The environment network is designed in a gradient-oriented way to provide stable reward values by using a wide architecture equipped with a fixed preprocessing layer with 8 x 8 DCT basis filters. Extensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve good security performance for JPEG images against both advanced feature-based and modern CNN-based steganalyzers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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