Dhavale, Sunita V and Deodhar, RS and Pradhan, Debasish and Patnaik, LM (2015) State Transition Based Embedding in Cepstrum Domain for Audio Copyright Protection. In: IETE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH, 61 (1). pp. 41-55.
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In this paper, we propose a new state transition based embedding (STBE) technique for audio watermarking with high fidelity. Furthermore, we propose a new correlation based encoding (CBE) scheme for binary logo image in order to enhance the payload capacity. The result of CBE is also compared with standard run-length encoding (RLE) compression and Huffman schemes. Most of the watermarking algorithms are based on modulating selected transform domain feature of an audio segment in order to embed given watermark bit. In the proposed STBE method instead of modulating feature of each and every segment to embed data, our aim is to retain the default value of this feature for most of the segments. Thus, a high quality of watermarked audio is maintained. Here, the difference between the mean values (Mdiff) of insignificant complex cepstrum transform (CCT) coefficients of down-sampled subsets is selected as a robust feature for embedding. Mdiff values of the frames are changed only when certain conditions are met. Hence, almost 50% of the times, segments are not changed and still STBE can convey watermark information at receiver side. STBE also exhibits a partial restoration feature by which the watermarked audio can be restored partially after extraction of the watermark at detector side. The psychoacoustic model analysis showed that the noise-masking ratio (NMR) of our system is less than -10dB. As amplitude scaling in time domain does not affect selected insignificant CCT coefficients, strong invariance towards amplitude scaling attacks is also proved theoretically. Experimental results reveal that the proposed watermarking scheme maintains high audio quality and are simultaneously robust to general attacks like MP3 compression, amplitude scaling, additive noise, re-quantization, etc.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | IETE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH |
| Publisher: | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Additional Information: | Copy right for this article belongs to the TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND |
| Keywords: | Audio watermarking; Blind; Cepstral feature; Complex cepstrum domain; Correlation based encoding (CBE); Digital rights management; Discrete wavelet transform; State transition based embedding (STBE) |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Electrical Sciences > Electronic Systems Engineering (Formerly Centre for Electronic Design & Technology) |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2015 06:59 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2015 06:59 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/52254 |
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