Audio Steganalysis with Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

In recent years, deep learning has achieved breakthrough results in various areas, such as computer vision, audio recognition, and natural language processing. However, just several related works have been investigated for digital multimedia forensics and steganalysis. In this paper, we design a novel CNN (convolutional neural networks) to detect audio steganography in the time domain. Unlike most existing CNN based methods which try to capture media contents, we carefully design the network layers to suppress audio content and adaptively capture the minor modifications introduced by ±1 LSB based steganography. Besides, we use a mix of convolutional layer and max pooling to perform subsampling to achieve good abstraction and prevent over-fitting. In our experiments, we compared our network with six similar network architectures and two traditional methods using handcrafted features. Extensive experimental results evaluated on 40,000 speech audio clips have shown the effectiveness of the proposed convolutional network.