@Article{csse.2023.037067,
AUTHOR = {Lingyun Xiang, Rong Wang, Yuhang Liu, Yangfan Liu, Lina Tan},
TITLE = {A General Linguistic Steganalysis Framework Using Multi-Task Learning},
JOURNAL = {Computer Systems Science and Engineering},
VOLUME = {46},
YEAR = {2023},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {2383--2399},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/csse/v46n2/51674},
ISSN = {},
ABSTRACT = {Prevailing linguistic steganalysis approaches focus on learning sensitive features to distinguish a particular category of steganographic texts from non-steganographic texts, by performing binary classification. While it remains an unsolved problem and poses a significant threat to the security of cyberspace when various categories of non-steganographic or steganographic texts coexist. In this paper, we propose a general linguistic steganalysis framework named LS-MTL, which introduces the idea of multi-task learning to deal with the classification of various categories of steganographic and non-steganographic texts. LS-MTL captures sensitive linguistic features from multiple related linguistic steganalysis tasks and can concurrently handle diverse tasks with a constructed model. In the proposed framework, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are utilized as private base models to extract sensitive features for each steganalysis task. Besides, a shared CNN is built to capture potential interaction information and share linguistic features among all tasks. Finally, LS-MTL incorporates the private and shared sensitive features to identify the detected text as steganographic or non-steganographic. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework LS-MTL outperforms the baseline in the multi-category linguistic steganalysis task, while average Acc, Pre, and Rec are increased by 0.5%, 1.4%, and 0.4%, respectively. More ablation experimental results show that LS-MTL with the shared module has robust generalization capability and achieves good detection performance even in the case of spare data.},
DOI = {10.32604/csse.2023.037067}
}