Convolutional Neural Network Based Text Steganalysis

TL;DR: This letter proposes a novel text steganalysis model based on convolutional neural network, which is able to capture complex dependencies and learn feature representations automatically from the texts, and uses a word embedding layer to extract the semantic and syntax feature of words.

Abstract: The prevailing text steganalysis methods detect steganographic communication by extracting hand-crafted features and classifying them using SVM. However, these features are designed based on the statistical changes caused by steganography, thus they are difficult to adapt to different kinds of embedding algorithms and the detection performance is heavily dependent on the text size. In this letter, we propose a novel text steganalysis model based on convolutional neural network, which is able to capture complex dependencies and learn feature representations automatically from the texts. First, we use a word embedding layer to extract the semantic and syntax feature of words. Second, the rectangular convolution kernels with different sizes are used to learn the sentence features. To further improve the performance, we present a decision strategy for detecting the long texts. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect different kinds of text steganographic algorithms and achieve comparable or superior performance for a wide variety of text sizes compared with the previous methods.