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Detection of double MP3 compression Based on Difference of Calibration Histogram

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In this paper, a new method to detect the presence of double MP3 compression is proposed. The method is based on the Difference of Calibration Histogram (DCH) characteristic. The features are extracted from the difference of the statistics of MDCT coefficients between the test audio and its calibrated audio. The performance of the scheme is tested on a database containing approximately 13,830 audios, a support vector machine (SVM) is applied to the features for detecting the double MP3 compression. Experimental results show that the proposed features are sensitive to double MP3 compression and achieve higher accuracy than the existing state-of-the-art, especially for same-transcoded and down-transcoded MP3 recompression. The method can also be used to estimate the bit-rate of the first-time MP3 encoding from the recompressed MP3 files.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the grant No. 61332019, 61373169, 61272451 and 61272453, and by the Foundation of The National Project 973 under the grant No. 2014CB340600

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  1. School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yanzhen Ren, Mengdi Fan, Dengpan Ye, Jing Yang & Lina Wang

  2. Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yanzhen Ren, Dengpan Ye & Lina Wang

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Ren, Y., Fan, M., Ye, D. et al. Detection of double MP3 compression Based on Difference of Calibration Histogram. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 13855–13870 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2758-3

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