A blind audio watermarking algorithm with self-synchronization

Author

Huang, Jiwu ; Wang, Yong ; Shi, Yun Q.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Zhongshan Univ., Guangzhou, China

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

627

Lastpage

630

Abstract

A blind audio information bit hiding algorithm with effective synchronization is proposed in this paper. The algorithm embeds synchronization signals in the time domain to resist the attacks such as cropping while keeping the computation for resynchronization lower. The watermark is placed in blockwise DCT coefficients of the original audio exploiting the HAS (Human Audio System) features. To lower the bit error rate of the watermark in extraction, error-correcting coding is applied. The experimental results show that the hidden imperceptible watermark is robust to the attacks caused by additive noise, MP3 coding, and cropping

Keywords

audio coding; copy protection; discrete cosine transforms; error correction codes; error statistics; message authentication; synchronisation; BER reduction; ECC; HAS features; MP3 coding attacks; additive noise attacks; bit error rate; blind audio information bit hiding algorithm; blind audio watermarking algorithm; blockwise DCT coefficients; cropping attacks; error-correcting coding; human audio system features; robust watermarking; self-synchronization; synchronization signal embedding; Additive noise; Audio systems; Bit error rate; Digital audio players; Discrete cosine transforms; Embedded computing; Humans; Noise robustness; Resists; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. ISCAS 2002. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Phoenix-Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7448-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1010302

Filename

1010302