Application of side-informed embedding and polynomial detection to audio watermarking

  • Authors:
  • M. Mullarkey;N. J. Hurley;G. C. M. Silvestre;T. Furon

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland;Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland;Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland;Signal Process. Program, Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Spread spectrum watermarking proceeds by extracting a feature vector from the cover contents and embedding a pseudo-random watermark signal in that feature vector. To detect the presence of the watermark, a correlation of the feature vector with the pseudo-random signal is performed and the result compared to a threshold. This correlation detection function is a first-order function of the feature vector components. In recent work, we have proposed that higher-order polynomial detection functions, combined with a side-informed watermark embedding strategy, can be used to increase the efficiency of the watermarking system. We have demonstrated this through a statistical analysis. In this paper, we apply our new family of detection functions to the watermarking of real audio signals. The schemes are tested on a database of over 300 different audio signals and a robustness analysis is performed on the experimental results.