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JPEG Steganalysis Detectors Scalable With Respect to Compression Quality
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.4.MWSF-075  Published OnlineJanuary 2020
Abstract

Practical steganalysis inevitably involves the necessity to deal with a diverse cover source. In the JPEG domain, one key element of the diversification is the JPEG quality factor, or, more generally, the JPEG quantization table used for compression. This paper investigates experimentally the scalability of various steganalysis detectors w.r.t. JPEG quality. In particular, we report that CNN detectors as well as older feature-based detectors have the capacity to contain the complexity of multiple JPEG quality factors within a single model when the quality factors are properly grouped based on their quantization tables. Detectors trained on multiple JPEG qualities show no loss of detection accuracy when compared with dedicated detectors trained for a specific JPEG quality factor. We also demonstrate that CNNs (but not so much feature-based classifiers) trained on multiple qualities can generalize to unseen custom quantization tables compared to detectors trained for specific JPEG qualities. Their ability to generalize to very different quantization tables, however, remains a challenging task. A semi-metric comparing quantization tables is introduced and used to interpret our results.

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Yassine Yousfi, Jessica Fridrich, "JPEG Steganalysis Detectors Scalable With Respect to Compression Qualityin Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics,  2020,  pp 75-1 - 75-11,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.4.MWSF-075

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