Frame-Wise Steganalysis Based on Mask-Gating Attention and Deep Residual Bilinear Interaction Mechanisms for Low-Bit-Rate Speech Streams

Frame-wise steganalysis is a crucial task in low-bit-rate speech streams that can achieve active defense. However, there is no common theory on how to extract steganalysis features for frame-wise steganalysis. Moreover, existing frame-wise steganalysis methods cannot extract fine-grained steganalysis features. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a frame-wise steganalysis method based on mask-gating attention and bilinear codeword feature interaction mechanisms. First, this paper utilizes the mask-gating attention mechanism to dynamically learn the importance of the codewords. Second, the bilinear codeword feature interaction mechanism is used to capture an informative second-order codeword feature interaction pattern in a fine-grained way. Finally, multiple fully connected layers with a residual structure are utilized to capture higher-order codeword interaction features while preserving lower-order interaction features. The experimental results show that the performance of our method is better than that of the state-of-the-art frame-wise steganalysis method on large steganography datasets. The detection accuracy of our method is 74.46% on 1000K testing samples, whereas the detection accuracy of the state-of-the-art method is 72.32%.