A robust digital audio watermarking scheme using wavelet moment invariance

  • Authors:
  • Xiang-yang Wang;Pan-pan Niu;Ming-yu Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer and Information Technology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China and Network and Data Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China;School of Computer and Information Technology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China and School of Information Science & Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;School of Information Science & Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

It is a challenging work to design a robust audio watermarking scheme against various attacks. Wavelet moment invariances are new features combining the moment invariant features and the wavelet features, and they have some excellent characteristics, such as the ability to capture local information, robustness against common signal processing, and the linear relationship between a signal and its wavelet moments etc. Based on wavelet moment and synchronization code, we propose a new digital audio watermarking algorithm with good auditory quality and reasonable resistance against most attacks in this paper. Firstly, the origin digital audio is segmented and then each segment is cut into two parts. Secondly, with the spatial watermarking technique, synchronization code is embedded into the statistics average value of audio samples in the first part. And then, map 1D digital audio signal in the second part into 2D form, and calculate its wavelet moments. Finally, the watermark bit is embedded into the average value of modulus of the low-order wavelet moments. Meanwhile combining the two adjacent synchronization code searching technology, the algorithm can extract the watermark without the help from the origin digital audio signal. Simulation results show that the proposed watermarking scheme is not only inaudible and robust against common signals processing such as MP3 compression, noise addition, resampling, and re-quantization etc., but also robust against the desynchronization attacks such as random cropping, amplitude variation, pitch shifting, and jittering etc.