# Image Steganography based on Style Transfer

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04500 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04500/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 27 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 Mar 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.01507/) (2017)
- [Recognizing Image Style](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1311.3715/) (2013)
- [A Style-Aware Content Loss for Real-time HD Style Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.10201/) (2018)
- [Texture Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.07376/) (2015)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Image steganography is the art and science of using images as cover for covert communications. With the development of neural networks, traditional image steganography is more likely to be detected by deep learning-based steganalysis. To improve upon this, we propose image steganography network based on style transfer, and the embedding of secret messages can be disguised as image stylization. We embed secret information while transforming the content image style. In latent space, the secret information is integrated into the latent representation of the cover image to generate the stego images, which are indistinguishable from normal stylized images. It is an end-to-end unsupervised model without pre-training. Extensive experiments on the benchmark dataset demonstrate the reliability, quality and security of stego images generated by our steganographic network.