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Audio Watermark

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Since the last decade, online distribution of digital multimedia including images, audio, video, and documents has proliferated rapidly. In the open environment, it is easy to get free access to various information resources. Along with the convenience and high fidelity by which digital formatted data can be copied, edited, and transmitted, massive amounts of copyright infringements have arisen from illegal reproduction and unauthorized redistribution, which hinders the digital multimedia industry from progressing steadily [12]. To prevent these violations, the enforcement of ownership management has become an urgent necessity and is claiming more and more attention. As a result, digital watermarking has been proposed to identify the owner or distributor of digital data for the purpose of copyrights protection.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Although fingerprinting sometimes is related to the practice of extracting inherent features that uniquely identify the content, we avoid using this term to prevent confusion [13].

  2. 2.

    Hereafter, if the items in the graphs are indicated by dashed lines, it means that they are optional.

  3. 3.

    Random samples cropping includes deliberate removal of the header or footer of a signal. Therefore, the watermark should be spread throughout the entire audio signal.

  4. 4.

    ITU-R: Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union; BS: Broadcasting service (sound).

  5. 5.

    ITU-R BS.562 has been replaced by ITU-R BS.1284[45].

  6. 6.

    To be described in section 3.1.3.2, multiple watermarking is to embed several watermarks sequentially.

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Lin, Y., Abdulla, W.H. (2015). Introduction. In: Audio Watermark. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07974-5_1

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