Non-Linear-Echo Based Anti-Collusion Mechanism for Audio Signals

Zong, T; Xiang, Y; Natgunanathan, I; Gao, L; Hua, G; Zhou, W

Non-Linear-Echo Based Anti-Collusion Mechanism for Audio Signals

Zong, T Xiang, Y Natgunanathan, I Gao, L Hua, G Zhou, W

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Publisher:: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021, 29, pp. 969-984
Issue Date:: 2021-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Zong, T
dc.contributor.author	Xiang, Y
dc.contributor.author	Natgunanathan, I
dc.contributor.author	Gao, L
dc.contributor.author	Hua, G
dc.contributor.author	Zhou, W https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1680-2521
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-14T01:57:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-14T01:57:20Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021, 29, pp. 969-984
dc.identifier.issn	1558-7916
dc.identifier.issn	2329-9304
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/156239
dc.description.abstract	Collusion attacks are considered to be challenging attacks in audio copyright protection. The traditional watermarking algorithms cannot identify the traitors when other attacks, such as desynchronization attacks, are applied with a collusion attack. Instead of tracing the traitors, in this paper we aim to tackle collusion attacks by removing the commercial value from the colluded copy, which will demotivate the attackers from launching collusion attacks. Since the commercial value of an audio signal is directly reflected by its perceptual quality, we propose a novel non-linear-echo generation (NLEG) based algorithm to significantly degrade the perceptual quality of the colluded copy by embedding a time delay sequence into the host signal. The proposed NLEG is also designed to be resilient to common signal processing attacks and desynchronization attacks. Furthermore, the proposed NLEG can be combined with other digital watermarking techniques to enhance its performance on protecting the copyright information. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed NLEG.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP170100458
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/TASLP.2021.3058892
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
dc.subject.classification	Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
dc.title	Non-Linear-Echo Based Anti-Collusion Mechanism for Audio Signals
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

Collusion attacks are considered to be challenging attacks in audio copyright protection. The traditional watermarking algorithms cannot identify the traitors when other attacks, such as desynchronization attacks, are applied with a collusion attack. Instead of tracing the traitors, in this paper we aim to tackle collusion attacks by removing the commercial value from the colluded copy, which will demotivate the attackers from launching collusion attacks. Since the commercial value of an audio signal is directly reflected by its perceptual quality, we propose a novel non-linear-echo generation (NLEG) based algorithm to significantly degrade the perceptual quality of the colluded copy by embedding a time delay sequence into the host signal. The proposed NLEG is also designed to be resilient to common signal processing attacks and desynchronization attacks. Furthermore, the proposed NLEG can be combined with other digital watermarking techniques to enhance its performance on protecting the copyright information. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed NLEG.

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