A dynamic matching algorithm for audio timestamp identification using the ENF criterion

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1045-1055

  Hua, Guang ^a   Goh, Jonathan ^a   Thing, Vrizlynn L L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

audio authentication; audio forensics; Electric network frequency (ENF); timestamp identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTRIC LINES;

AUDIO AUTHENTICATION; AUDIO FORENSICS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MAXIMUM CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARED ERROR; NETWORK FREQUENCY; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; TIME-STAMP;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84901407683     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2321228     Document Type: Article

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