Revealing real quality of double compressed MP3 audio

  • Authors:
  • Mengyu Qiao;Andrew H. Sung;Qingzhong Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USA;New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USA;Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

MP3 is the most popular format for audio storage and a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback. The flexibility of compression ratio of MP3 coding enables users to choose their customized configuration in the trade-off between file size and quality. Double MP3 compression often occurs in audio forgery, steganography and quality faking by transcoding an MP3 audio to a different compression ratio. To detect double MP3 compression, in this paper, we extract the statistical features on the modified discrete cosine transform, and apply support vector machines and a dynamic evolving neuron-fuzzy inference system to the extracted features for classification. Experimental results show that our method effectively and accurately detects double MP3 compression for both up-transcoded and down-transcoded MP3 files. Our study also indicates the potential for mining the audio processing history for forensic purposes.