Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT

This paper presents a new blind digital speech watermarking technique based on Eigen-value quantization in Discrete Wavelet Transform. Initially, each frame of the digital speech was transformed into the wavelet domain by applying Discrete Wavelet Transform. Then, the Eigen-value of Approximation Co...

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Main Authors: Nematollahi, Mohammad Ali, Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman, Zarafshan, Faraneh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43957/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43957/1/Blind%20digital%20speech%20watermarking%20based%20on%20Eigen-value%20quantization%20in%20DWT.pdf
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author Nematollahi, Mohammad Ali
Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman
Zarafshan, Faraneh
author_facet Nematollahi, Mohammad Ali
Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman
Zarafshan, Faraneh
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building UPM Institutional Repository
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description This paper presents a new blind digital speech watermarking technique based on Eigen-value quantization in Discrete Wavelet Transform. Initially, each frame of the digital speech was transformed into the wavelet domain by applying Discrete Wavelet Transform. Then, the Eigen-value of Approximation Coefficients was computed by using Singular Value Decomposition. Finally, the watermark bits were embedded by quantization of the Eigen-value. The experimental results show that this watermarking technique is robust against different attacks such as filtering, additive noise, resampling, and cropping. Applying new robust transforms, adaptive quantization steps and synchronization techniques can be the future trends in this field.
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spelling upm-439572021-12-01T07:45:17Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43957/ Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT Nematollahi, Mohammad Ali Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman Zarafshan, Faraneh This paper presents a new blind digital speech watermarking technique based on Eigen-value quantization in Discrete Wavelet Transform. Initially, each frame of the digital speech was transformed into the wavelet domain by applying Discrete Wavelet Transform. Then, the Eigen-value of Approximation Coefficients was computed by using Singular Value Decomposition. Finally, the watermark bits were embedded by quantization of the Eigen-value. The experimental results show that this watermarking technique is robust against different attacks such as filtering, additive noise, resampling, and cropping. Applying new robust transforms, adaptive quantization steps and synchronization techniques can be the future trends in this field. Elsevier 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43957/1/Blind%20digital%20speech%20watermarking%20based%20on%20Eigen-value%20quantization%20in%20DWT.pdf Nematollahi, Mohammad Ali and Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman and Zarafshan, Faraneh (2015) Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT. Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences, 27 (1). pp. 58-67. ISSN 1319-1578; ESSN: 2213-1248 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S131915781400055X 10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.03.012
spellingShingle Nematollahi, Mohammad Ali
Al-Haddad, Syed Abdul Rahman
Zarafshan, Faraneh
Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT
title Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT
title_full Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT
title_fullStr Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT
title_full_unstemmed Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT
title_short Blind digital speech watermarking based on Eigen-value quantization in DWT
title_sort blind digital speech watermarking based on eigen-value quantization in dwt
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