Secure Audio Watermarking for Multipurpose Defensive Applications

Salma Masmoudi, Maha Charfeddine, Chokri Ben Amar

2024

Abstract

Audio recordings contain very sensitive content, such as historical archival material in public archives that protects and conserves our cultural heritage, digital evidence in the context of law enforcement, the online formats of sensitive digital Holy Quran, etc. Such audio content is vulnerable to doctoring and falsification of its origin with malicious intent. One tool to solve several multimedia security difficulties facing this sensitive content is to tag it with a message before the distribution process. This technique is called watermarking. Hence, this paper aims to present a scheme of tamper detection and integrity control based on multipurpose and secure audio watermarking. To treat the integrity control application, we suggested embedding in the digital audio signal the tonal components resulting from the Human Psychoacoustic Model masking study, which are extracted as features from the relevant low-frequency band of the original audio signal. In addition, a Multilayer perceptron-based denoising autoencoder was executed after learning robust representation from corrupted audio features to correct the watermarked frequencies, thereby restoring the original ones. Consequently, blind tamper detection and blind invertibility were guaranteed. The detailed results indicated that the suggested scheme achieved higher performance at the integrity control and tamper detection level, as well as at the watermarking and reversibility properties.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Masmoudi S., Charfeddine M. and Ben Amar C. (2024). Secure Audio Watermarking for Multipurpose Defensive Applications. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-696-5, SciTePress, pages 743-751. DOI: 10.5220/0012739400003687

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase24,
author={Salma Masmoudi and Maha Charfeddine and Chokri Ben Amar},
title={Secure Audio Watermarking for Multipurpose Defensive Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2024},
pages={743-751},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012739400003687},
isbn={978-989-758-696-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - Secure Audio Watermarking for Multipurpose Defensive Applications
SN - 978-989-758-696-5
AU - Masmoudi S.
AU - Charfeddine M.
AU - Ben Amar C.
PY - 2024
SP - 743
EP - 751
DO - 10.5220/0012739400003687
PB - SciTePress