Audio watermarking robust against time-scale modification and MP3 compression

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2372-2387

  Xiang, Shijun ^a   Kim, Hyoung Joong ^b   Huang, Jiwu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Audio watermarking; DWT; Histogram; MP3 compression; TSM

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

COMMON SIGNAL PROCESSING; HISTOGRAM; INFORMATION HIDING; LOSSY COMPRESSIONS; MP3 COMPRESSION; STATISTICAL FEATURES; TIME-SCALE MODIFICATION; WATERMARKING METHODS;

AUDIO WATERMARKING;

EID: 54949154894     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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