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High Quality Audio Watermarking using Spread Spectrum and Psychoacoustic Model

대역확산과 심리음향 모델을 이용한 고음질 오디오 워터마킹

  • Noh Jin-Soo (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Rhee Kang-Hyeon (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chosun University)
  • Published : 2006.09.01
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Abstract

In this paper, we proposed the high quality audio watermarking algorithm using MDCT/IMDCT (Modified DCT/Inverse Modified DCT) with psychoacoustic model. Generally, a digital audio watermark is embedding the frequency domain after frequency transform of the digital audio data but the digital audio quality is affected by watermarking. In our scheme, the digital audio data is spread with PN((Pseudo Noise) code and then audio watermark is embedded in MDCT processing that refers psychoacoustic model. In MDCT processing, according to the shape of filter bank output, the block switching selects a window sequence that has 256, 1,024 or 2,048 points interval for high quality audio. The author confirm that when watermark weight ${\alpha}$ is 2.5 below, the detection ratio of watermark is a satisfied to SDMI's(Secure Digital Music Initiative) recommendation 50% above and SM is $50{\sim}68dB$ range with mainly 4 kind of attacks(Compression, Cropping, FFT and Echo).

본 논문에서는 심리음향 모델과 MDCT/IMDCT(Modified DCT/Inverse Modified DCT)를 이용하여 고음질 오디오 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 디지털 오디오 워터마크는 디지털 오디오 신호를 주파수 영역으로 변환 한 다음 주파수 영역에 워터마크를 삽입하지만 삽입된 워터마크에 의해 디지털 오디오 음질이 영향을 받게 된다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 디지털 오디오 데이터를 PN(Pseudo Noise) 코드를 사용하여 확산시킨 다음 심리음향 모델을 참조하여 MDCT 과정을 통하여 오디오 워터마크를 삽입시킨다. MDCT 과정에서 고음질의 오디오를 얻기 위해 필터뱅크 출력의 첨예도에 따라 256, 1,024 또는 2,048 포인트의 윈도우가 선택되어진다. 본 논문에서 워터마크 계수 ${\alpha}$가 2.5 이하일 때, 워터마크의 검출률이 SDMI(Secure Digital Music Initiative)의 제안 조건을 50% 이상 상회 하며, SNR은 4종류의 공격(압축, 절단, FFT, 에코)에 대해 $50{\sim}68dB$ 값을 가짐을 확인하였다.

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