Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: BASS
Editor
Christian Callegari, Marten van Sinderen, Paulo Novais, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Sebastiano Battiato, Ángel Serrano Sánchez de León, Pascal Lorenz, and Mohammad S. Obaidat
First Page
431
Last Page
441
Abstract
Email is one of the most common forms of digital communication. Spam is unsolicited bulk email, while image spam consists of spam text embedded inside an image. Image spam is used as a means to evade text-based spam filters, and hence image spam poses a threat to email-based communication. In this research, we analyze image spam detection using support vector machines (SVMs), which we train on a wide variety of image features. We use a linear SVM to quantify the relative importance of the features under consideration. We also develop and analyze a realistic “challenge” dataset that illustrates the limitations of current image spam detection techniques.
Recommended Citation
Aneri Chavda, Katerina Potika, Fabio Di Troia, and Mark Stamp. "Support Vector Machines for Image Spam Analysis" Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: BASS (2018): 431-441. https://doi.org/10.5220/0006921404310441
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