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Robust patchwork-based watermarking method for stereo audio signals
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posted on 2014-09-01, 00:00 authored by Iynkaran NatgunanathanIynkaran Natgunanathan, Yong XiangYong Xiang, Y Rong, D PengThis paper presents a patchwork-based watermarking method for stereo audio signals, which exploits the similarity of the two sound channels of stereo signals. Given a segment of stereo signal, we first compute the discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) of the two sound channels, which yields two sets of DFT coefficients. The DFT coefficients corresponding to certain frequency range are divided into multiple subsegment pairs and a criterion is proposed to select those suitable for watermark embedding. Then a watermark is embedded into the selected subsegment pairs by modifying their DFT coefficients. The exact way of modification is determined by a secret key, the watermark to be embedded, and the DFT coefficients themselves. In the decoding process, the subsegment pairs containing watermarks are identified by another criterion. Then the secret key is used to extract the watermark from the watermarked subsegments. Compared to the existing patchwork methods for audio watermarking, the proposed method does not require knowledge of which segments of the watermarked audio signal contain watermarks and is more robust to conventional attacks.
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Multimedia tools and applicationsVolume
72Issue
2Pagination
1 - 24Publisher
SpringerLocation
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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1380-7501eISSN
1573-7721Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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Audio watermarkingDiscrete Fourier transformPatchworkStereo audio signalScience & TechnologyTechnologyComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Software EngineeringComputer Science, Theory & MethodsEngineering, Electrical & ElectronicComputer ScienceEngineeringBLIND SEPARATIONSPREAD-SPECTRUMVECTORSCHEMEInformation SystemsArtificial Intelligence and Image ProcessingComputer SoftwareDistributed Computing
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