Development of nearly lossless embedding technology of contactless sensible watermarks for audio signals

Abstract

We have proposed a novel audio watermarking technology, which embeds a set of bitstream data by changing two-channel stereo locations of lower frequency components in an embedding target audio signal. This method features nearly lossless embedding, robustness against lossy data compression or analogue conversion, and enables contactless asynchronous detection of embedded watermarks through speaker and microphone devices without the original audio signals. In this paper, we propose an extended monaural audio watermark embedding method, which supports both monaural and stereo audio signals, and enables watermark detection by a single monaural microphone such as cell phone voice receiver devices. We describe an abstract of our proposed watermark embedding and extracting algorithm, and experimental results of watermark extraction precision. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.