Linguistic steganalysis based on meta features and immune mechanism

Linguistic steganalysis depends on efficient detection features due to the diversity of syntax and the polysemia of semantics in natural language processing. This paper presents a novel linguistics steganalysis approach based on meta features and immune clone mechanism. Firstly, meta features are used to represent texts. Then immune clone mechanism is exploited to select appropriate features so as to constitute effective detectors. Our approach employed meta features as detection features, which is an opposite view from the previous literatures. Moreover, the immune training process consists of two phases which can identify respectively two kinds of stego texts. The constituted detectors have the capable of blind steganalysis to a certain extent. Experiments show that the proposed approach gets better performance than typical existing methods, especially in detecting short texts. When sizes of texts are confined to 3kB, detection accuracies have exceeded 95%.