Dongxia Huang
ABSTRACT
In comparison to symmetric embedding, asymmetric methods generally provide better steganography security. However, the performance of existing asymmetric methods is limited by their reliance on symmetric embedding costs. In this paper, we present a novel Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based steganography approach that independently learns asymmetric embedding costs from scratch. Our proposed framework features a generator with a dual-branch architecture and a discriminator that integrates multiple steganalytic networks. To address the issues of model instability and non-convergence that often arise in GAN model training, we implement an adaptive strategy that updates the GAN model parameters according to the performance of multiple steganalytic networks in each iteration. Furthermore, we introduce a new adversarial loss function that effectively learns asymmetric embedding costs by utilizing features like image residuals, gradients, asymmetric embedding probability maps, and the sign of the modification map to train the dual-branch network within the generator. Our comprehensive experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art steganography security results, significantly outperforming existing top-performing symmetric and asymmetric methods. Additionally, numerous ablation experiments confirm the rationality of our GAN-based model design.
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- Automatic Asymmetric Embedding Cost Learning via Generative Adversarial Networks
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