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Robust Audio Watermarking in Frequency Domain for Copyright Protection

저작권 보호를 위한 주파수 영역에서의 강인한 오디오 워터마킹

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Abstract

Digital watermarking has drawn extensive attention for protecting digital contents from unauthorized copying. This paper proposes a new watermarking scheme in frequency domain for copyright protection of digital audio. In our proposed watermarking system, the original audio is segmented into non-overlapping frames. Watermarks are then embedded into the selected prominent peaks in the magnitude spectrum of each frame. Watermarks are extracted by performing the inverse operation of watermark embedding process. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme is robust against various kinds of attacks such as noise addition, cropping, resampling, re-quantization, MP3 compression, and low pass filtering. Our proposed watermarking system outperforms Cox's method in terms of imperceptibility, while keeping comparable robustness with the Cox's method. Our proposed system achieves SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) values ranging from 20 dB to 28 dB. This is in contrast to Cox's method which achieves SNR values ranging from only 14 dB to 23 dB.

디지털 워터마킹은 불법 복제로부터 디지털 콘텐츠를 보호하기 위해 광범위하게 주목을 받아왔다. 본 논문은 디지털 오디오의 저작권 보호를 위해 주파수 영역에서의 새로운 워터마킹 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 워터마킹 시스템에서는 디지털 오디오가 중첩되지 않는 프레임들로 분리된다. 분리된 각 프레임의 크기 대역에서 선택된 최고치에 워터마크가 삽입된다. 모의실험 결과, 제안하는 방법은 노이즈 추가, 잘라내기, 재배열, 양자화, MP3 압축, 저역통과 필터 등과 같은 공격에서 강인성을 보인다. 제안한 방법의 이러한 결과는 잘 알려진 Cox방법과 비교하여 유사한 강인성을 보이지만, SNR 측면에서는 Cox방법보다 우수한 성능을 보였다. 제안한 방법은 20dB에서 28dB의 SNR을 보인반면, Cox방법은 단지 14dB에서 23dB의 성능을 보였다.

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