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                    <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ei</journal-id>
                    <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
                    <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2470-1173</issn>
                    <publisher>
                        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
                        <publisher-loc>IS&amp;T 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
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                    <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/EI.2025.37.4.MWSF-299</article-id>
                    <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">MWSF-299</article-id>
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                        <subject>Proceedings Paper</subject>
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                        <article-title>Transformers for Pooled Steganalysis</article-title>
                    </title-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Kaziakhmedov</surname>
                            <given-names>Edgar </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author1"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author1">SUNY Binghamton, US</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Fridrich</surname>
                            <given-names>Jessica </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author2"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author2">SUNY Binghamton, US</aff></contrib-group><abstract>
                    <title>Abstract</title>
                    <p>In batch steganography, the sender communicates a secret message by hiding it in a bag of cover objects. The adversary performs the so-called pooled steganalysis in that she inspects the entire bag to detect the presence of secrets. This is typically realized by using a detector trained to detect secrets within a single object, applying it to all objects in the bag, and feeding the detector outputs to a pooling function to obtain the final detection statistic. This paper deals with the problem of building the pooler while keeping in mind that the Warden will need to be able to detect steganography in variable size bags carrying variable payload. We propose a flexible machine learning solution to this challenge in the form of a Transformer Encoder Pooler, which is easily trained to be agnostic to the bag size and payload and offers a better detection accuracy than previously proposed poolers.</p>
                    </abstract><pub-date>
                        <day>2</day>
                        <month>2</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
                        </pub-date><volume>37</volume>
                    <issue-acronym></issue-acronym>
                    <issue-title>Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2025</issue-title>
                    <issue seq="299">4</issue>
                    <fpage>299-1</fpage>
                    <lpage>299-10</lpage>
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                         <copyright-statement>© 2025, Society for Imaging Science and Technology</copyright-statement>
                        <copyright-year></copyright-year>
                    </permissions><kwd-group><kwd>batch steganography</kwd><kwd>vision transformer</kwd><kwd>Steganalysis</kwd><kwd>Pooled steganalysis</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta>
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