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Window switching strategy based semi-fragile watermarking for MP3 tamper detection

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MP3 is a promising carrier format for covert communication, and how to secure its fidelity and integrity is a significant problem. In this paper, we propose a semi-fragile MP3 watermarking method for tamper detection by exploiting the rule of window switching during encoding. The method carries out embedding by establishing a mapping relationship between the type of window and the MD5 of authentication information. Moreover, we design a tamper detection method by analysing the watermark bits sequence. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of accuracy for tamper detection, time efficiency, imperceptibility and advisable robustness with compressed MP3 audio.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61573125 and 61371155, and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grants 1608085MF131, 1508085MF132, and 1508085QF129. The authors would like to thank the Editors and anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions. They would also like to thank Dr. X. Liu for his help in academic writing.

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    Zhaopin Su, Lejie Chang, Guofu Zhang, Jianguo Jiang & Feng Yue

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Su, Z., Chang, L., Zhang, G. et al. Window switching strategy based semi-fragile watermarking for MP3 tamper detection. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 9363–9386 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3539-3

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