Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals

Audio watermarking is a promising technology for copyright protection of audio data. Built upon the concept of spread spectrum (SS), many SS-based audio watermarking methods have been developed, where a pseudonoise (PN) sequence is usually used to introduce security. A major drawback of the existing...

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Main Authors: Xiang, Y., Natgunanathan, I., Rong, Yue, Guo, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: IEEE Signal Processing Society 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19827
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author Xiang, Y.
Natgunanathan, I.
Rong, Yue
Guo, S.
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Natgunanathan, I.
Rong, Yue
Guo, S.
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description Audio watermarking is a promising technology for copyright protection of audio data. Built upon the concept of spread spectrum (SS), many SS-based audio watermarking methods have been developed, where a pseudonoise (PN) sequence is usually used to introduce security. A major drawback of the existing SS-based audio watermarking methods is their low embedding capacity. In this paper, we propose a new SS-based audio watermarking method which possesses much higher embedding capacity while ensuring satisfactory imperceptibility and robustness. The high embedding capacity is achieved through a set of mechanisms: embedding multiple watermark bits in one audio segment, reducing host signal interference on watermark extraction, and adaptively adjusting PN sequence amplitude in watermark embedding based on the property of audio segments. The effectiveness of the proposed audio watermarking method is demonstrated by simulation examples.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-198272017-09-13T15:57:05Z Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals Xiang, Y. Natgunanathan, I. Rong, Yue Guo, S. PN sequence spread spectrum copyright protection embedding capacity Audio watermarking Audio watermarking is a promising technology for copyright protection of audio data. Built upon the concept of spread spectrum (SS), many SS-based audio watermarking methods have been developed, where a pseudonoise (PN) sequence is usually used to introduce security. A major drawback of the existing SS-based audio watermarking methods is their low embedding capacity. In this paper, we propose a new SS-based audio watermarking method which possesses much higher embedding capacity while ensuring satisfactory imperceptibility and robustness. The high embedding capacity is achieved through a set of mechanisms: embedding multiple watermark bits in one audio segment, reducing host signal interference on watermark extraction, and adaptively adjusting PN sequence amplitude in watermark embedding based on the property of audio segments. The effectiveness of the proposed audio watermarking method is demonstrated by simulation examples. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19827 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2476755 IEEE Signal Processing Society fulltext
spellingShingle PN sequence
spread spectrum
copyright protection
embedding capacity
Audio watermarking
Xiang, Y.
Natgunanathan, I.
Rong, Yue
Guo, S.
Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals
title Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals
title_full Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals
title_fullStr Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals
title_full_unstemmed Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals
title_short Spread Spectrum Based High Embedding Capacity Watermarking Method for Audio Signals
title_sort spread spectrum based high embedding capacity watermarking method for audio signals
topic PN sequence
spread spectrum
copyright protection
embedding capacity
Audio watermarking
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19827