Computer Science – Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
2007-07-03
Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
Pages 29
Scientific paper
Audio watermarking has played an important role in multimedia security. In many applications using audio watermarking, D/A and A/D conversions (denoted by DA/AD in this paper) are often involved. In previous works, however, the robustness issue of audio watermarking against the DA/AD conversions has not drawn sufficient attention yet. In our extensive investigation, it has been found that the degradation of a watermarked audio signal caused by the DA/AD conversions manifests itself mainly in terms of wave magnitude distortion and linear temporal scaling, making the watermark extraction failed. Accordingly, a DWT-based audio watermarking algorithm robust against the DA/AD conversions is proposed in this paper. To resist the magnitude distortion, the relative energy relationships among different groups of the DWT coefficients in the low-frequency sub-band are utilized in watermark embedding by adaptively controlling the embedding strength. Furthermore, the resynchronization is designed to cope with the linear temporal scaling. The time-frequency localization characteristics of DWT are exploited to save the computational load in the resynchronization. Consequently, the proposed audio watermarking algorithm is robust against the DA/AD conversions, other common audio processing manipulations, and the attacks in StirMark Benchmark for Audio, which has been verified by experiments.
Huang Jiwu
Xiang Shijun
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