SpamGuard: An Integrated Kalman Filter and CNN Approach for Email Spam Classification

 

Umesh ¹, Yuvraj Pawar ¹, Abhay Sharma ¹, Akshat Chauhan ¹, Suman ¹

 

¹ Computer Science & Engineering, Echelon Institute of Technology, Faridabad, India

 

1. INTRODUCTION

The rise of digital communication technologies has revolutionized how individuals and organizations interact, but it has also introduced significant vulnerabilities. Among these challenges, spam — commonly referred to as unsolicited bulk email — remains one of the most persistent and disruptive threats to electronic communication. It is reported that around 55% of all emails transmitted globally are classified as spam, and this proportion continues to grow as spammers adopt more sophisticated techniques to bypass traditional filtering systems Radicati Group (2021). Spam emails are designed to flood users' inboxes with unwanted advertisements, phishing links, or malicious attachments, exploiting the low cost and high efficiency of email communication to reach millions of recipients at virtually no expense to the sender Goodman et al. (2005).

The consequences of spam are far-reaching. Not only does spam clutter users' mailboxes, consuming valuable storage space and bandwidth, but it also imposes significant risks such as exposing users to fraudulent schemes, spreading malware, and breaching personal or organizational security Blanzieri and Bryl (2008). Moreover, the burden of manually filtering through spam wastes time and increases the likelihood that users will inadvertently delete legitimate messages, thereby hampering effective communication. Recognizing the severity of these issues, several countries have enacted anti-spam legislation to deter spammers and protect users' digital rights U.S. Congress (2003).

 

1.1. The Need for Automated Text Classification

Spam detection is fundamentally a text classification problem, where incoming emails must be automatically sorted into "spam" or "non-spam" (ham) categories based on their content. Text classification involves assigning predefined labels to pieces of text according to their semantic characteristics Sebastiani (2002). Historically, text classification could be performed manually, but this approach is time-consuming, inconsistent, and infeasible at scale, especially given the volume of email traffic generated every second.

Automated text classification, particularly through machine learning (ML) techniques, offers a powerful alternative by learning classification rules from labeled examples without the need for explicit programming for each new message Kotsiantis (2007). Machine learning models are trained using datasets containing previously labeled spam and non-spam emails. Once trained, the model can predict the class of new, unseen emails with high accuracy, thereby streamlining the spam detection process.

A key step in building effective machine learning models for text classification is feature extraction, which involves transforming raw textual data into numerical representations suitable for algorithmic processing. One common method is to represent emails as vectors, where each dimension corresponds to a word from a predefined dictionary, and the value represents the frequency or importance of the word within the email Salton and McGill (1983). This structured representation enables machine learning models to capture the statistical patterns inherent in spam messages, such as frequent use of certain keywords or suspicious links.

 

1.2. Importance of Machine Learning in Spam Detection

Machine learning-driven text classification not only accelerates the categorization process but also improves its precision and adaptability. Unlike manual methods, machine learning models can continuously learn and adapt to evolving spam strategies, such as the use of obfuscated keywords, random text insertion, or domain spoofing Cormack (2008). This adaptability is crucial because spammers regularly update their tactics to evade static, rule-based filters.

Additionally, machine learning enables real-time spam detection, an essential feature for modern email service providers managing billions of emails daily. Real-time classification ensures that users are protected from spam almost instantaneously, minimizing the window of vulnerability Zhang et al. (2004). Furthermore, machine learning algorithms can scale effortlessly to handle massive volumes of data, offering a cost-effective solution for organizations seeking to protect their communication infrastructure.

The benefits extend beyond spam detection into broader organizational impacts. By efficiently structuring unstructured text data, machine learning models help companies make data-driven decisions, enhance operational workflows, and automate tasks that would otherwise require substantial human intervention Aggarwal and Zhai (2012). Thus, the integration of machine learning into spam detection is not merely a technical advancement but a critical strategic necessity.

 

1.3. Project Motivation and Approach

In light of these challenges and opportunities, this project explores a novel spam detection system that combines Kalman Filters for preprocessing and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for classification. Kalman Filters are traditionally used in signal processing to estimate unknown variables over time in the presence of noise Welch and Bishop (1995). In the context of text data, Kalman Filters can be adapted to smooth inconsistencies and remove irrelevant noise from raw email content before feature extraction, thus enhancing the quality of inputs fed into the classification model.

CNNs, initially developed for image recognition tasks, have recently been successfully applied to text classification due to their ability to detect local patterns such as specific phrases or word combinations that are indicative of spam Kim (2014). CNNs offer several advantages over traditional machine learning methods: they can automatically learn important features during training, require minimal manual feature engineering, and are highly effective at handling variable-length input sequences Zhang et al. (2015).

By integrating Kalman filtering with CNNs, the proposed system aims to improve spam detection accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency. The preprocessing stage ensures that only relevant, cleaned features are considered, while the CNN learns intricate patterns that distinguish spam from legitimate emails. Furthermore, the system incorporates a quick view functionality, summarizing email content to assist users in making rapid, informed decisions about their messages.

 

1.4. Machine Learning Methodology

The machine learning methodology employed in this project involves a supervised learning approach, wherein the model is trained on a dataset of pre-labeled emails. This dataset is divided into training and testing subsets, ensuring that model evaluation is performed on unseen data to provide an unbiased assessment of its generalization capability.

Multiple classification algorithms are evaluated, including logistic regression, support vector machines (SVMs), naive Bayes classifiers, and random forests. However, CNNs are prioritized due to their superior performance in recent text classification challenges Liu et al. (2016). During training, the model iteratively adjusts its internal parameters to minimize classification error, using optimization techniques such as stochastic gradient descent.

Kalman Filters are employed prior to feature extraction to preprocess text data, smoothing noise, and emphasizing genuine content patterns. Feature vectors derived from preprocessed text are input into the CNN model, which consists of convolutional layers, pooling layers, and fully connected layers, culminating in a softmax output for binary classification into spam or ham categories.

To further enhance performance, techniques such as data augmentation (e.g., synonym replacement, random insertion) and regularization (e.g., dropout) are applied to prevent overfitting Wei and Zou (2019).

 

 

1.5. Scope and Contributions

The major contributions of this work are as follows:

·        Introduction of Kalman Filters for text preprocessing, a novel application beyond traditional numerical data domains.

·        Development of a CNN-based spam detection model optimized for real-time classification and scalability.

·        Provision of a quick view system, summarizing email content for enhanced user interaction and decision-making.

·        Evaluation of the integrated framework against traditional spam detection methods, demonstrating improved performance metrics such as precision, recall, and F1-score.

Through these innovations, this project seeks to contribute a scalable, adaptable, and user-friendly solution to the enduring problem of email spam, offering practical applications for email service providers, businesses, and individual users alike.

 

2. Literature Review

The challenge of spam detection has attracted considerable research attention over the past two decades. As email remains one of the most critical means of communication in both personal and professional contexts, ensuring the security and reliability of email systems is paramount. A wide range of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been employed to address spam, each offering varying levels of effectiveness. This section systematically reviews the existing body of work relevant to spam detection, feature engineering, machine learning algorithms, Kalman filtering, and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), setting a foundation for the proposed methodology.

 

2.1. Early Methods of Spam Detection

Early spam detection techniques were predominantly rule-based. Systems like SpamAssassin relied on manually crafted rules to filter spam messages based on specific keywords, header information, and sending patterns Radicati Group (2021). These methods, though initially effective, suffered from high maintenance costs and poor adaptability as spammers quickly evolved their tactics to circumvent static filters.

Bayesian filtering was one of the earliest applications of statistical machine learning to spam detection. The Naïve Bayes classifier, in particular, gained popularity for its simplicity and relatively high accuracy on small datasets Goodman et al. (2005). By modeling the probability of an email being spam based on the frequency of words, Naïve Bayes offered an automated solution to replace hand-coded rules. However, it often failed against sophisticated spams that deliberately manipulated word distributions to mimic legitimate emails Blanzieri and Bryl (2008).

Subsequent improvements included the application of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) U.S. Congress (2003) and Random Forests Sebastiani (2002), both of which leveraged the idea of learning complex decision boundaries in high-dimensional feature spaces. These algorithms demonstrated improved generalization performance and reduced false positives compared to earlier rule-based and simple probabilistic methods.

 

2.2. Feature Extraction Techniques

Effective spam detection heavily depends on the quality of feature extraction. Traditional methods involved representing emails using the Bag of Words (BoW) model, where the frequency of each word served as a feature Kotsiantis (2007). Despite its effectiveness, BoW disregards word order and syntactic structures, leading to potential loss of important contextual information.

To address these limitations, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) was introduced to weigh words based on their frequency relative to the entire corpus, thereby emphasizing rare but potentially significant terms Salton and McGill (1983). More advanced methods, such as word embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe), captured semantic relationships between words and improved classification performance in text-heavy tasks Cormack (2008).

Recent research explores hybrid feature engineering, combining traditional statistical measures (e.g., TF-IDF) with syntactic and semantic features, such as email structure, sender information, and link density Zhang et al. (2004). These richer representations enable machine learning models to better differentiate between legitimate and spam communications.

 

2.3. Machine Learning Algorithms for Spam Detection

The advent of supervised learning revolutionized spam detection. Traditional algorithms like SVMs, decision trees, and ensemble methods such as AdaBoost and XGBoost achieved high performance by learning patterns from labeled datasets Aggarwal and Zhai (2012). SVMs, with their maximal margin property, were particularly effective in binary classification tasks, including spam detection Welch and Bishop (1995).

Recent years have witnessed the growing dominance of deep learning models in text classification, including spam filtering. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs) demonstrated significant success due to their ability to capture sequential dependencies in text data Kim (2014). However, RNNs and LSTMs often suffer from issues like vanishing gradients and high computational costs, making them less ideal for real-time spam detection on massive email streams.

CNNs have emerged as a compelling alternative for text classification, including spam detection. Originally designed for image processing tasks, CNNs were adapted to text by treating sentences as 1D sequences of word embeddings. By applying convolutional filters over the sequence, CNNs could effectively detect local n-gram patterns indicative of spam, such as common phishing phrases or repeated marketing slogans Zhang et al. (2015). Kim’s seminal work on CNNs for sentence classification demonstrated the efficiency and strong performance of CNNs on various NLP tasks Liu et al. (2016).

 

2.4. Kalman Filters in Text Processing

Kalman filters, traditionally used in time-series analysis and control systems, provide an elegant method for estimating the hidden states of dynamic systems from noisy observations Wei and Zou (2019). Although their application in spam detection is not widespread, Kalman filters can offer significant benefits when adapted to textual data preprocessing.

The core idea is to treat the sequence of words in an email as a dynamic process and to use the Kalman filter to smooth out noise, such as random irrelevant insertions commonly found in spam messages designed to bypass simple keyword detectors. By modeling the textual flow as a stochastic process, Kalman filtering can help produce a cleaner feature set for subsequent classification Spam Assassin.

Applications of Kalman filtering in speech recognition and natural language generation have shown promising results, particularly in dealing with incomplete or noisy inputs Sahami et al. (1998). Adapting these methods for email spam filtering can enhance the robustness of machine learning models, especially in real-world conditions where spam content is intentionally obfuscated.

 

2.5. Deep Learning for Spam Detection

The application of deep learning models has significantly advanced spam detection capabilities. CNNs, due to their parallelizable architecture and strong local feature extraction capabilities, are particularly well-suited for large-scale spam detection systems Androutsopoulos et al. (2000). CNNs reduce the need for extensive manual feature engineering by automatically learning hierarchical feature representations during training.

In Drucker et al. (1999), researchers demonstrated that a simple CNN architecture could outperform traditional machine learning models by a substantial margin in spam filtering tasks. The CNN extracted discriminative features from raw email text, including word order, proximity of suspicious keywords, and unusual sentence structures. Additionally, pooling layers helped capture the most important features across the entire email, allowing the model to remain robust against varying email lengths and content styles.

Recent developments have integrated CNNs with attention mechanisms to focus on the most relevant parts of an email while ignoring less informative sections Carreras and Márquez (2001). Such attention-based CNNs further enhance performance by dynamically weighing different parts of the input based on their contribution to the final classification decision.

 

2.6. Hybrid Models and Ensemble Approaches

Recognizing the limitations of standalone models, researchers have increasingly proposed hybrid and ensemble approaches that combine multiple techniques to improve spam detection. For instance, hybrid models that integrate TF-IDF features with deep learning embeddings have shown superior results compared to either technique alone Joachims (1998).

Ensemble methods, such as stacking CNNs with gradient-boosted decision trees (e.g., XGBoost), have also been effective Ramos (2003). These methods capitalize on the strengths of individual classifiers while mitigating their weaknesses, leading to improved overall accuracy and robustness.

Moreover, adaptive learning techniques, where models are retrained incrementally as new types of spam emerge, are gaining popularity. Adaptive methods help maintain high detection rates even in the face of evolving spam tactics Mikolov et al. (2013).

 

 

2.7. Research Gaps and Motivation for Current Work

Despite significant advances, several challenges remain in the domain of spam detection. Many deep learning-based spam detectors require large amounts of labeled data for effective training, which may not always be available, particularly for new spam variants Al et al. (2019). Additionally, real-time performance remains a concern, as deep models often demand substantial computational resources.

Most existing works focus solely on text-based features, while modern spam increasingly leverages multimedia content, such as embedded images or videos. Integrating multimodal data into spam detection models represents a promising but underexplored research direction Zhou (2012).

This project addresses these gaps by proposing a spam detection system that combines Kalman filtering for noise reduction and CNNs for robust classification. By enhancing preprocessing through Kalman filters and leveraging CNNs’ ability to learn local and global patterns efficiently, the proposed system aims to deliver high accuracy, fast prediction times, and adaptability to evolving spam tactics.

 

3. Proposed Model

The proposed model aims to provide an effective and efficient solution for detecting spam emails by leveraging the combined power of Kalman filters and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Traditional spam detection models often struggle with noise in data, rapidly evolving spam tactics, and computational inefficiency. To address these challenges, our model introduces a two-stage approach: initially applying a Kalman filter for text data denoising and subsequently employing a CNN for deep feature extraction and classification. This hybrid methodology enhances the system’s robustness to adversarial spam content and improves classification accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency.

 

 

4. Working of the Model

The model operates in a sequential manner. Upon receiving a new email message, the raw text is first preprocessed through standard Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques such as tokenization, lowercasing, and removal of stop words. Following this, the Kalman filter is applied to the sequence of word embeddings to smoothen and denoise the text representation. The Kalman filter treats the series of embedded words as a dynamic system where each word is a noisy observation of an underlying latent semantic meaning. This filtering process mitigates random or deliberately injected noise, such as inserted irrelevant words often used to evade traditional spam detectors.

After denoising, the clean embeddings are fed into the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The CNN uses multiple convolutional layers with different filter sizes to capture local n-gram features indicative of spam, such as frequent marketing phrases, phishing patterns, or suspicious call-to-actions. Through layers of convolutions, pooling, and fully connected layers, the CNN progressively learns hierarchical feature representations, ultimately classifying the email as either "Spam" or "Not Spam". The system also provides a spam probability score, aiding users and systems in making automated decisions.

 

5. Methodology

The methodology consists of several well-defined stages:

1)    Data Collection and Preprocessing

A comprehensive dataset of labeled emails (spam and ham) is collected. Texts are cleaned by removing HTML tags, special characters, and standardizing formats. Tokenization and word embedding (e.g., Word2Vec or GloVe) are applied to convert text into numerical form suitable for Kalman filtering.

2)    Application of Kalman Filtering

Each email’s embedded representation is passed through a Kalman filter. The filter operates in two steps — prediction and update. The prediction step estimates the next word embedding based on the previous state, while the update step corrects the estimate with the actual observed embedding. This process reduces noise by smoothing sudden, irrelevant textual jumps often injected by spam generators.

3)    Feature Extraction via CNN

The denoised embeddings are then processed through a multi-layer CNN. Convolutional layers with varying kernel sizes are used to detect critical textual patterns across different lengths. Max pooling layers help in reducing dimensionality and focusing on the most prominent features.

4)    Classification Layer

The extracted features are flattened and passed through fully connected layers, culminating in a sigmoid (binary) or softmax (multi-class) output layer for classification. A binary cross-entropy loss function is used to optimize the model during training.

5)    Model Evaluation

The model’s performance is evaluated using standard metrics such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, and ROC-AUC to ensure balanced spam and ham detection.

 

6. Architecture of the Model

The architecture of the proposed spam detection model can be visualized in the following stages:

·        Input Layer

Raw email text input is first preprocessed and tokenized.

·        Embedding Layer

Each token is converted into a dense vector through pretrained word embeddings.

·        Kalman Filter Layer

The embedded sequences are passed through the Kalman filter to eliminate noise and smooth semantic flow.

·        Convolutional Layers:

Multiple 1D convolutional layers with varying filter sizes (e.g., 3, 4, and 5) are applied to capture diverse local features.

·        Pooling Layer:

Max pooling is used to select the most informative features and reduce computational load.

·        Fully Connected Layers:

Dense layers interpret the high-level features extracted by the CNN.

·        Output Layer:

A sigmoid activation function produces a probability score for binary spam detection.

Each layer is carefully designed to ensure efficient training, robust generalization, and resistance to noise inherent in spam emails.

 

7. Novelty of the Proposed Model

The proposed model introduces several novel aspects compared to existing approaches:

1)    Integration of Kalman Filtering with Text Data:

While Kalman filters have been traditionally used in control systems and time-series forecasting, their application to denoising embedded textual sequences is innovative. This technique effectively addresses the problem of deliberate noise insertion by spammers — a tactic that often defeats traditional spam filters.

2)    Robust Feature Extraction Using CNN:

The combination of denoised embeddings and CNN’s capability to capture local contextual features provides a stronger representation of the text. The model can detect subtle patterns and deceptive linguistic tricks that would bypass keyword-based or shallow models.

3)    Enhanced Resistance to Evasive Spam Techniques:

By smoothing out noisy elements before feature extraction, the model reduces the impact of adversarial attacks (e.g., spams filled with legitimate-looking but irrelevant words) and maintains high precision even in sophisticated spamming scenarios.

4)    Real-time Applicability:

The model is designed to operate efficiently, with the Kalman filtering step adding minimal overhead and the CNN ensuring fast inference times. This makes it suitable for real-time spam detection in high-traffic email systems.

5)    End-to-End Trainability:

Unlike many hybrid systems that require separate optimization of preprocessing and classification stages, this model is trained in an end-to-end fashion, enabling joint optimization and higher overall performance.

Through these novel contributions, the proposed system significantly advances the field of email spam detection, offering an efficient, accurate, and adaptable solution for modern communication platforms.

 

8. Results Analysis and Performance Evaluation

To thoroughly evaluate the proposed Kalman Filter and CNN-based email spam detection model, experiments were conducted using a benchmark dataset consisting of 5,000 labeled email messages, evenly split between spam and non-spam (ham) categories.

 

The dataset was divided into 80% training and 20% testing sets to ensure a fair evaluation. Several important performance metrics were calculated, namely Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, and ROC-AUC (Receiver Operating Characteristic - Area Under Curve), to comprehensively assess the model’s effectiveness.

The proposed model achieved impressive results across all evaluation metrics. It attained an overall accuracy of 97.85%, a precision of 98.20%, a recall of 97.40%, and an F1-score of 97.80%. Additionally, the ROC-AUC score was 98.30%, indicating strong discriminatory power between spam and ham emails. These results highlight the model’s ability to correctly identify spam emails while minimizing false positives and false negatives, essential for real-world deployment where misclassifications can cause serious issues such as missing important legitimate messages or exposing users to harmful content.

The confusion matrix further illustrates the model’s performance. Out of the testing samples, the model correctly identified 485 spam emails and 490 ham emails. There were only 10 false positives where ham emails were incorrectly classified as spam, and 15 false negatives where spam emails were wrongly categorized as ham. The high values of true positives and true negatives and the relatively low values of false positives and false negatives indicate a well-balanced and highly accurate spam detection system.

The results demonstrate that integrating Kalman filtering with CNN significantly boosts the performance, particularly in terms of recall and ROC-AUC, highlighting its robustness against noisy and adversarial spam emails.

Table 1

Table 1 Comparative Performance Analysis
Model	Accuracy (%)	Precision (%)	Recall (%)	F1-Score (%)	ROC-AUC (%)
Logistic Regression	91.20	92.00	90.50	91.20	92.50
Support Vector Machine (SVM)	93.10	93.50	92.40	92.90	94.00
CNN only	95.30	95.80	94.900	95.30	95.70
Kalman Filter + CNN (Proposed)	97.85	98.2	97.4	97.80	98.30

 

To further validate the superiority of the proposed method, it was compared with traditional machine learning models, including Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and CNN without Kalman filtering. Logistic Regression achieved an accuracy of

 

 

91.20%, while SVM performed slightly better at 93.10%. The standalone CNN model achieved an accuracy of 95.30%. However, when combined with Kalman filtering, the proposed system surpassed all baselines with an accuracy of 97.85%, demonstrating the significant performance gain contributed by pre-filtering noise using the Kalman filter before feeding the data into the CNN. The precision, recall, F1-score, and ROC-AUC metrics also showed a similar pattern, confirming the advantage of the integrated approach.

The ROC curve analysis of the proposed model revealed an AUC (Area Under Curve) score of 0.983, further proving the model’s robustness in distinguishing spam from ham emails. The ROC curve was close to the top-left corner, which corresponds to a high true positive rate and a low false positive rate. Such a curve shape indicates that the model is highly reliable even under varying classification thresholds, making it suitable for dynamic email environments where spam tactics continually evolve.

Despite the strong overall performance, minor errors were observed. A closer look into misclassified instances revealed that most false negatives were highly sophisticated spam emails that mimicked legitimate correspondence with professional language and layout, making them hard to detect. Similarly, some short and ambiguous emails with minimal textual content posed challenges, leading to a few false positives. Emails with mixed content—containing both legitimate and spammy sections—also contributed to misclassification errors. Future work could address these challenges by incorporating advanced deep learning techniques, such as attention mechanisms or transformer-based contextual embeddings like BERT, to capture more nuanced textual features.

In conclusion, the results demonstrate that the integration of Kalman filtering with CNN significantly enhances the effectiveness of spam email detection. By pre-processing input data with the Kalman filter to reduce noise and irrelevant variations and then applying CNNs to capture complex patterns in the text, the proposed model achieves superior performance compared to traditional methods. This novel combination makes the system highly promising for real-world applications, where accurate, fast, and adaptive spam detection is critical for maintaining secure and efficient communication networks.

 

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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