Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking

This paper presents a novel patchwork-based embedding and decoding scheme for digital audio watermarking. At the embedding stage, an audio segment is divided into two subsegments and the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of the subsegments are computed. The DCT coefficients related to a s...

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Main Authors: Natgunanathan, I., Xiang, Y., Rong, Yue, Zhou, W., Guo, S.
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Published: IEEE Signal Processing Society 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22089
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author Natgunanathan, I.
Xiang, Y.
Rong, Yue
Zhou, W.
Guo, S.
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Xiang, Y.
Rong, Yue
Zhou, W.
Guo, S.
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description This paper presents a novel patchwork-based embedding and decoding scheme for digital audio watermarking. At the embedding stage, an audio segment is divided into two subsegments and the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of the subsegments are computed. The DCT coefficients related to a specified frequency region are then partitioned into a number of frame pairs. The DCT frame pairs suitable for watermark embedding are chosen by a selection criterion and watermarks are embedded into the selected DCT frame pairs by modifying their coefficients, controlled by a secret key. The modifications are conducted in such a way that the selection criterion used at the embedding stage can be applied at the decoding stage to identify the watermarked DCT frame pairs. At the decoding stage, the secret key is utilized to extract watermarks from the watermarked DCT frame pairs. Compared with existing patchwork watermarking methods, the proposed scheme does not require information of which frame pairs of the watermarked audio signal enclose watermarks and is more robust to conventional attacks.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-220892017-09-13T15:59:54Z Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking Natgunanathan, I. Xiang, Y. Rong, Yue Zhou, W. Guo, S. patchwork generalized Gaussian distribution discrete cosine transform Audio watermarking This paper presents a novel patchwork-based embedding and decoding scheme for digital audio watermarking. At the embedding stage, an audio segment is divided into two subsegments and the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of the subsegments are computed. The DCT coefficients related to a specified frequency region are then partitioned into a number of frame pairs. The DCT frame pairs suitable for watermark embedding are chosen by a selection criterion and watermarks are embedded into the selected DCT frame pairs by modifying their coefficients, controlled by a secret key. The modifications are conducted in such a way that the selection criterion used at the embedding stage can be applied at the decoding stage to identify the watermarked DCT frame pairs. At the decoding stage, the secret key is utilized to extract watermarks from the watermarked DCT frame pairs. Compared with existing patchwork watermarking methods, the proposed scheme does not require information of which frame pairs of the watermarked audio signal enclose watermarks and is more robust to conventional attacks. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22089 10.1109/TASL.2012.2199111 IEEE Signal Processing Society fulltext
spellingShingle patchwork
generalized Gaussian distribution
discrete cosine transform
Audio watermarking
Natgunanathan, I.
Xiang, Y.
Rong, Yue
Zhou, W.
Guo, S.
Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking
title Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking
title_full Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking
title_fullStr Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking
title_full_unstemmed Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking
title_short Robust Patchwork-Based Embedding and Decoding Scheme for Digital Audio Watermarking
title_sort robust patchwork-based embedding and decoding scheme for digital audio watermarking
topic patchwork
generalized Gaussian distribution
discrete cosine transform
Audio watermarking
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22089