An adaptive spread-spectrum data hiding technique for digital audio

Author

Sterling, Mark ; Titlebaum, Edward L. ; Dong, Xiaoxiao ; Bocko, Mark F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rochester Univ., NY, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2005

fDate

18-23 March 2005

Abstract

In this paper we describe an application of spread spectrum techniques in audio data hiding for watermarking and steganography. The method is self-synchronizing, cover-dependent, and operates in the time domain. We use a special class of frequency-hop signal known as a Welch-Costas array. Welch-Costas arrays have the properties of range and Doppler resolution. This allows us to recover embedded data with a matched filter. We also demonstrate a special case of an adaptive method due to Su and Girod (2002).

Keywords

audio coding; cryptography; data encapsulation; frequency hop communication; matched filters; spread spectrum communication; watermarking; Doppler resolution; Welch-Costas arrays; adaptive data hiding; audio data hiding; cover-dependent method; digital audio; embedded data recovery; frequency-hop signal; matched filter; range resolution; self-synchronizing method; spread spectrum techniques; steganography; time domain method; watermarking; Additive noise; Data encapsulation; Frequency; Laboratories; Matched filters; Robustness; Signal resolution; Spread spectrum communication; Steganography; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8874-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416396

Filename

1416396