Robust audio watermarking in the time domain

The audio watermarking method presented below offers copyright protection to an audio signal by modifying its temporal characteristics. The amount of modification embedded is limited by the necessity that the output signal must not be perceptually different from the original one. The watermarking method presented here does not require the original signal for watermark detection. The watermark key is simply a seed known only by the copyright owner. This seed creates the watermark signal to be embedded. Watermark embedding depends also on the audio signal amplitude in a way that minimizes the audibility of the watermark signal. The embedded watermark is robust to MPEG audio coding, filtering, resampling and requantization.