Audio Watermarking Based on Wavelet Transform

• Published in: Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 229-231; pp. 2784 - 2788
• Main Authors: Ali, Nasser H., Osman, Mahmoud A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Zurich Trans Tech Publications Ltd 29.11.2012
• Subjects: Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT); Inaudible Watermarking; Audio Watermarking; Robust Watermarking; Ownership Verification; Copyright Protection
• ISBN: 9783037855102; 303785510X
• ISSN: 1660-9336; 1662-7482; 1662-7482
• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.229-231.2784

The process of hiding the information like text, binary image, audio etc. into another signal source like image, audio etc. is called watermarking. The approach involved in watermarking the binary image signal in the wavelet domain of the audio signal was implemented using MATLAB. In this paper, we propose a Discrete Wavelet Transform low frequency to high frequency. Besides, the high frequency spectrum is less sensitive to human ear. That is the reason why the high frequency component is usually discarded in the compression process. Therefore, information to be hidden can be embedded into the low frequency component to against the compression attack. The characteristic of this scheme is that the user can not only use the DAW to embed the text file in to the audio but also binary image. In this paper we embeds copyright information into audio files as a proof of their ownership, we propose an effective, robust, and an inaudible audio watermarking algorithm. The effectiveness of the algorithm has been brought by virtue of applying the discrete wavelets transform (DWT) . Experimental results will be presented in this paper to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.