A Novel Algorithm for Robust Audio Watermarking in Wavelet Domain

With the sharp blossoming of the Internet, itbecomes more and more important to protect theintelligent property rights (IPR). Watermarking is aneffective solution. It takes advantage of the redundancyof the human visual system (HVS) and auditory system(HAS) to identify the copyright by embedding somesecret information relevant to IPR holders. The invisible watermarking algorithm shouldsatisfy the demands on imperceptivity, low complexity,robustness, determinacy and safety. However,imperc…

A Novel Algorithm for Robust Audio Watermarking in Wavelet Domain

A novel algorithm for digital audio watermarking in wavelet domain is proposed. First, an original audio signal is decomposed by discrete wavelet transform at three levels. Then, a discrete watermark is embedded into the coefficients of its intermediate frequencies. Finally, the watermarked audio signal is obtained by wavelet reconstruction. The proposed algorithm makes good use of the multiresolution characteristics of wavelet transform. The original audio signal is not needed when detecting the watermark correlatively. Simulation results show that the algorithm is inaudible and robust to noise, filtering and resampling.