The multi-bit watermarking method for speech signals in the time-frequency domain

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Al-khassaweneh, Mahmood^{a; *} | Al-zoubi, Hussien^a | Aviyente, Selin^b

Affiliations: [a] Computer Engineering Department, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan | [b] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: M. Al-khassaweneh, Computer Engineering Department, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid 21163, Jordan. E-mail: khassaweneh@yu.edu.jo.

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a new multi-bit watermarking method for speech signals in the joint time-frequency domain. For this purpose, we compute the Wigner distribution of the speech signal and embed the watermark in a subset of time-frequency cells. The problem of synthesizing the signal from the watermarked Wigner distribution is discussed and a simple algorithm to reconstruct the speech signal from its Wigner distribution is proposed. The performance of the proposed watermarking algorithm is illustrated for sample attacks.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-2010-0329

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 59-67, 2010