Aiming at the problems of poor quality of steganographic images and slow network convergence of image steganography models based on deep learning, this paper proposes a Steganography Curriculum Learning training strategy (STCL) for deep learning image steganography models. So that only easy images are selected for training when the model has poor fitting ability at the initial stage, and gradually expand to more difficult images, the strategy includes a difficulty evaluation strategy based on the teacher model and an knee point-based training scheduling strategy. Firstly, multiple teacher models are trained, and the consistency of the quality of steganographic images under multiple teacher models is used as the difficulty score to construct the training subsets from easy to difficult. Secondly, a training control strategy based on knee points is proposed to reduce the possibility of overfitting on small training sets and accelerate the training process. Experimental results on three large public datasets, ALASKA2, VOC2012 and ImageNet, show that the proposed image steganography scheme is able to improve the model performance under multiple algorithmic frameworks, which not only has a high PSNR, SSIM score, and decoding accuracy, but also the steganographic images generated by the model under the training of the STCL strategy have a low steganography analysis scores. You can find our code at \href{https://github.com/chaos-boops/STCL}{https://github.com/chaos-boops/STCL}.

本文针对基于深度学习的图像隐写模型存在的隐写图像质量差和网络收敛速度慢的问题，提出了一种隐写课程学习训练策略（STCL）。该策略通过从简单图像训练开始，逐步扩展到更复杂图像，以提高模型性能，实验结果显示在多个算法框架下，STCL显著提升了模型的PSNR和SSIM分数，并降低了隐写分析分数。

STCL：用于深度学习图像隐写模型的课程学习策略