Audio Watermarking Using Wavelet Transform and Genetic Algorithm for Realizing High Tolerance to MP3 Compression英文文献资料.docVIP

Journal of Information Security, 2011, 2, 99-112 doi:10.4236/jis.2011.23010 Published Online July 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jis) Audio Watermarking Using Wavelet Transform and Genetic Algorithm for Realizing High Tolerance to MP3 Compression Shinichi Murata , Yasunari Yoshitomi , Hiroaki Ishii 1 2 3 1 Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma, Osaka, Japan Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan E-mail: yoshitomi@kpu.ac.jp 2 3 Received April 12, 2011; revised June 8, 2011; accepted June 20, 2011 Abstract Recently, several digital watermarking techniques have been proposed for hiding data in the frequency do- main of audio signals to protect the copyrights. However, little attention has been given to the optimal posi- tion in the frequency domain for embedding watermarks. In general, there is a tradeoff between the quality of the watermarked audio and the tolerance of watermarks to signal processing methods, such as compression. In the present study, a watermarking method developed for a visual image by using a wavelet transform was applied to an audio clip. We also improved the performance of both the quality of the watermarked audio and the extraction of watermarks after compression by the MP3 technique. To accomplish this, we created a mul- tipurpose optimization problem for deciding the positions of watermarks in the frequency domain and ob- taining a near-optimum solution. The near-optimum solution is obtained by using a genetic algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed method generates watermarked audios of good quality and high tolerance to MP3 compression. In addition, the security was improved by using the characteristic secret key to embed and extract the watermark information. Keywords: Audio Watermar