From Image to Audio Watermarking Using Self-Inverting Permutations

Maria Chroni, Angelos Fylakis, Stavros D. Nikolopoulos

2014

Abstract

The intellectual property infringement in music due to the proliferation of the internet and the ease of creating and distributing identical digital objects has brought watermarking techniques to the forefront of digital rights protection. Towards this direction, a significant number of watermarking techniques have been proposed in recent years in order to create robust and imperceptible audio watermarks. In this work we propose an audio watermarking technique which efficiently and secretly embeds information, or equivalently watermarks, into an audio digital signal. Our technique is based on the main idea of a recently proposed image watermarking technique expanding thus the digital objects that can be efficiently watermarked through the use of self-inverting permutations. More precisely, our audio watermarking technique uses the 1D representation of self-inverting permutations and utilizes marking at specific areas thanks to partial modifications of the audio's Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT); these modifications are made on the magnitude of specific frequency bands. We have evaluated the embedding and extracting algorithms by testing them on various and different in characteristics audio signals that were in WAV format and we have obtained positive results. The algorithms have been developed and tested using the mathematical software package Matlab.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chroni M., Fylakis A. and D. Nikolopoulos S. (2014). From Image to Audio Watermarking Using Self-Inverting Permutations . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-023-9, pages 177-184. DOI: 10.5220/0004855901770184

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist14,
author={Maria Chroni and Angelos Fylakis and Stavros D. Nikolopoulos},
title={From Image to Audio Watermarking Using Self-Inverting Permutations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2014},
pages={177-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004855901770184},
isbn={978-989-758-023-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - From Image to Audio Watermarking Using Self-Inverting Permutations
SN - 978-989-758-023-9
AU - Chroni M.
AU - Fylakis A.
AU - D. Nikolopoulos S.
PY - 2014
SP - 177
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0004855901770184