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- This invention relates to apparatus and methods for encoding or embedding and decoding or extracting information in analog signals, such as audio, video and data signals, either transmitted by radio wave transmission or wired transmission, or stored in a recording medium such as optical or magnetic disks, magnetic tape, or solid state memory.
- the present invention is concerned with techniques for embedding and extracting auxiliary information within an existing signal, such as an audio or video signal.
- An area of particular interest to certain embodiments of the present invention relates to the market for musical recordings.
- a large number of people listen to musical recordings on radio or television. They often hear a recording which they like enough to purchase, but don't know the name of the song, the artist performing it, or the record, tape, or CD album of which it is part.
- the number of recordings which people purchase is less than it otherwise would be if there was a simple way for people to identify which of the recordings that they hear on the radio or TV they wish to purchase.
- Another area of interest to certain embodiments of the invention is copy control (also referred to as digital watermarking) .
- audio software products such as musical recordings.
- Yet another field of interest relating to the present invention pertains to automatic royalty tracking and proof of performance of copyrighted material or commercial advertisements, by which copyright owners are able to track public performances or broadcasts of their material for royalty payment purposes, and advertisers are able to confirm that commercials which they have paid for were actually broadcast at the proper time and date.
- Still another area of interest to the present invention relates to integrity verification or tampering detection, wherein the creator of an audio or audiovisual work can determine whether it has been altered, modified or incorporated into another work.
- Various prior art methods of encoding additional information onto a source signal are known. For example, it is known to pulse-width modulate a signal to provide a common or encoded signal carrying at least two information portions or other useful portions.
- binary data is transmitted as a signal having two differing pulse-widths to represent logical "0" and "1" (e.g., the pulse-width durations for a "1" are twice the duration for a "0") .
- This correspondence also enables the determination of a clocking signal.
- U.S. Patent Nos. 4,876,617 to Best et al. (1989) and 5,113,437 to Best et al . (1992) disclose enco ⁇ ers for forming relatively thin and shallow (e.g., 150 Hz wide and 50 dB deep) notches m mid-range frequencies of an audio signal .
- relatively thin and shallow (e.g., 150 Hz wide and 50 dB deep) notches m mid-range frequencies of an audio signal discloses paired notch filters centered about the 2883 Hz and 3417 Hz frequencies; the later patent discloses notch filters but with randomly varying frequency pairs to discourage erasure or inhibit filtering of the information added to the notches.
- the encoders then add digital information in the form of signals m the lower frequency indicating a "0" and in the higher frequency a "1".
- an encoder samples the audio signal, delays the signal while calculating the signal level, and determines during the delay whether or not to add the data signal and, if so, at what signal level .
- the later Best et al . patent also notes that the "pseudo-random manner" in moving the notches makes the data signals more difficult to detect audibly.
- Other prior art techniques employ the psychoacoustic model of the human perception characteristic to insert modulated or unmodulated tones into a host signal such that they will be masked by existing signal components and thus not perceived. See . e.g.
- the prior art fails to provide a method and an apparatus for embedding and extracting auxiliary analog or digital information signals onto analog audio or video frequency signals for producing humanly perceived transmissions (i.e.. sounds or images) such that the audio or video frequency signals produce substantially identical humanly perceived transmission prior to as well as after encoding with the auxiliary signals (in other words, the embedded information is transparent to the listener or viewer) , which is also robust to a high degree of signal distortions caused by noisy transmission mediums, etc.
- the prior art also fails to provide relatively simple and inexpensive apparatus and methods for embedding and extracting signals defining auxiliary information into audio or video frequency signals for producing humanly perceived audio transmissions.
- the present invention provides apparatus and methods for embedding or encoding, and extracting or decoding, auxiliary (analog or digital) information in an analog host or cover signal in a way which has minimal impact on the perception of the source information when the analog signal is applied to an appropriate output device, such as a speaker, a display monitor, or other electrical/electronic device.
- the present invention further provides apparatus and methods for embedding and extracting machine readable signals in an analog cover signal which control the ability of a device to copy the cover signal .
- the present invention provides for the encoding or embedding of an auxiliary signal in an analog host or cover signal, by generating a replica signal from the cover signal, modifying the replica signal as a function of the auxiliary signal, and inserting the modified replica signal back into the analog cover signal to provide a stego signal .
- the invention further provides for the extraction of embedded auxiliary signals from stego signals by generating a replica of the stego signal, and correlating the replica with the stego signal .
- apparatus for embedding and extracting auxiliary signals in an analog cover signal comprising a replica generator for generating a replica signal from the cover signal, a modulator for modifying the replica signal as a function of the auxiliary signal, an adder for inserting the modified replica signal back into the analog cover signal to produce a stego signal, a receiver for receiving the stego signal, a generator for generating a replica signal from the stego signal, a modulator for modifying the received stego signal as a function of the replica signal of the received stego signal, and an extractor for extracting the auxiliary signal by filtering the modified received stego signal .
- cover signal refers to a host or source signal, such as an audio, video or other information signal, which carries or is intended to carry embedded or hidden auxiliary data.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a data signal embedding and extracting process utilized by the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the embeddor 10 of Fig. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the embedded signal generator 11 of Fig. 2 ;
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the data signal extractor 20 according to the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram of one embodiment of a replica generator which produces a cover signal replica shifted in frequency from the original;
- FIGs . 6 (a) -6(c) are graphs showing a set of orthogonal functions used in the creation of an amplitude- shifted replica according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for embedding information or data onto a cover signal, such as an audio signal, video signal, or other analog signal (hereinafter called a "cover signal"), by generating a replica of the cover signal within a predefined frequency, time and/or space domain, modulating the replica with an auxiliary signal representing the information to be added to the cover signal, and then inserting the modulated replica back into the cover signal .
- a cover signal such as an audio signal, video signal, or other analog signal
- the invention can implemented m a number of different ways, either by software programming of a digital processor, m the form of analog, digital, or mixed-signal integrated circuits, as a discrete component electronic device, or a combination of such implementations.
- the replica is similar to the cover signal in time and frequency domain content, but different in certain parameters as specified by a stego key, which is not generally known, but which is known at authorized receiving apparatus.
- the invention employs an embeddor 10 to generate a stego signal 4, which is substantially the same m terms of the content and quality of information carried by a cover signal 2.
- cover signal 2 is a video or audio signal
- the stego signal 4 will produce essentially the same video or audio program or information when applied to an output device such as a video display or loudspeaker.
- a stego key 9 is used to determine and specify the particular region of the time, frequency and/or space domain of the replica where tne auxiliary signal 6 is to be embedded, as well as tne parameters of the emoedding process .
- the embeddor then appropriately modulates or modifies the replica and adds the replica back into the cover signal to obtain a stego signal 4.
- Stego signal 4 can be transmitted, or stored m a storage medium such as magnetic tape, CD-ROM, solid state memory, and the like for later recall and/or transmission.
- the embedded auxiliary signal is recovered by an extractor 20, having knowledge of or access to the stego key 9, which operates on the stego signal 4 to extract the auxiliary signal 6.
- the embedding process can be expressed by the formula:
- s(t) represents the stego signal 4
- s(t) represents the cover signal 2
- w ⁇ t is the l-th hidden signal 8 (see Fig. 2) , also known as a watermark.
- the embeddor can be used to insert multiple auxiliary signals 6 simultaneously, using a different stego key 9 for each signal .
- a single stego key 9 is used, and there would be only one hidden signal w(t) .
- equation (1) and Hereinafter, a one-dimensional signal i.e.
- a signal varying according to a single dimension, such as time is considered for purposes of simplicity in explanation; however, the present invention is not limited to one-dimensional signals but can be readily extended to multidimensional signals such as images (two dimensions) , video (three dimensions), etc., py defining t as a vector.
- a replica of the cover signal 2 itself is used as a carrier for the auxiliary signal 6 Because the replica is inherently similar to tne cover signal m terms of frequency content, no analysis of the cover signal is necessary m order to hide an auxiliary signal, such as a digital watermark.
- auxiliary signals are embedded m the form of a pseudorandom sequence (Preuss et al . ) or m the form of multiple tones distributed over the frequency band of the cover signal (Jensen et al . ) .
- Preuss et al . a pseudorandom sequence
- Jensen et al . m the form of multiple tones distributed over the frequency band of the cover signal
- the embedded signal 8 according to the present invention can be expressed by the formula:
- w 1 (t) g 1 m 1 (t)r 1 (t) (2)
- q ' 1 is a gain (scaling factor) parameter determined by tradeoff considerations of robustness versus transparency
- m. (t) is the auxiliary signal 6, wherein im 1 (t)
- the gain factor g x can be a predetermined constant for a given application, or it can be adaptable, such that dynamic changes m transparency and robustness conditions can be taken into account. For example, in highly tonal musical passages the gains can be lower, while for spectrally rich or noisy audio signals the gams can be higher, with equivalent levels of transparency.
- the embeddor can perform an extractor process simulation to identify signals naving less than desirable detectability, and increase the gain accordingly.
- Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of one preferred embodiment of the embeddor 10.
- the cover signal 2, stego key 9, and auxiliary signal 6 are inputted to an embedded signal generator 11.
- the embedded signal generator generates replica r ⁇ t) from cover signal 2 according to the stego key 9, modulates or modifies the replica r, (t) with auxiliary signal 6 (m £ (t)), scales the result using gain parameter g 1( and generates an embedded signal 8 (w x (t)) .
- the embedded signal 8 is then added to the cover signal 2 (s(t)) in an adder 12, to produce the stego signal 4 (s(t)).
- the replica r A (t) is obtained by taking a portion of the cover signal 2 within a specified time, frequency and/or spatial domain as specified by the stego key 9, and then making slight modifications to the signal portion, also as specified by the stego key 9.
- the modifications to the signal portion need to be small to ensure that the replica remains similar to the cover signal as judged by the human psychoacoustic-psychovisual systems, but such modifications must be large enough to be detectable by an appropriately designed extractor having knowledge of or access to the stego key 9.
- Equation (2) reveals that the replica r ⁇ t) is modulated by the auxiliary signal m x (t) according to a process known as product modulation.
- Product modulation results in a broadening of the spectrum of the embedded signal proportionally to the spectral width of the auxiliary signal.
- the spectrum of the auxiliary signal In order to make the spectrum of the embedded signal similar to the spectrum of the cover signal (to preserve the transparency of the embedding process) the spectrum of the auxiliary signal must be narrow in comparison with the lowest frequency in the spectrum of the replica. This requirement imposes a limit on the capacity of the auxiliary channel, and dictates that low frequency components of the cover signal are unsuitable for inclusion in the creation of the replica.
- h(t) is obtained by low- pass filtering a rectangular pulse so as to restrict the spectral width of the modulating (auxiliary) signal.
- Fig. 3 illustrates the details of an embedded signal generator 11 used to generate a single embedded data message.
- the cover signal 2 is filtered and/or masked in filtering/masking block 30 to produce a filtered/masked signal 31.
- the filter/mask block 30 separates regions of the cover signal used for different embedded messages.
- the filtered/masked signal 31 is comprised of the selected regions of the cover signal, as specified by stego key 9, which are then used for creation of the replica signal 41.
- the signal 31 is then inputted to a replica creator 40, where predetermined parameters of the signal are modified, as specified by stego key 9, to create the replica r ⁇ t) 41.
- the replica 41 is then modulated by the auxiliary signal r ⁇ t) in multiplier 42a, and the resultant signal is then scaled in multiplier 42b according to the selected gain factor g ⁇ to produce embedded signal component 8 (i.e.. w A (t) in equation (2)).
- the embedded signal component 8 is then added back to the cover signal 2 in adder 12 (Fig. 2) to obtain the stego signal 4.
- FIG. 4 A block diagram of an extractor used to recover the auxiliary data embedded in the stego signal is shown in Fig. 4.
- the stego signal 4 is filtered/masked in filter/mask module 30a to isolate the regions where the auxiliary data is embedded.
- the filtered signal 31a is inputted to replica creator 40a where a replica r ⁇ t) 41a of the stego signal is generated in the same manner as the replica r ⁇ (t) of the cover signal in the replica creator block 40 in the embeddor, using the same stego key 9.
- the replica r x (t) of the stego signal 4 can be expressed by the formula:
- R (m ⁇ (t) ri (t) ) represents the replica of the modulated cover signal replica.
- the replica of the stego signal is substantially the same as the replica of the cover signal.
- the replica r ⁇ t) 41a is multiplied by the stego signal 31a in multiplier 42c to obtain the correlation product :
- one objective is to obtain spectra of the products r-(t)s(t) and r,(t)r j (t), i ⁇ j , with little low frequency content.
- filtering is performed on c(t) by filter 44, which has a filter characteristic matching the spectrum of the auxiliary signal.
- filter 44 which has a filter characteristic matching the spectrum of the auxiliary signal.
- the matched filtering corresponds to integration over the bit interval.
- the filtering operation is followed by symbol regeneration in a regenerator 46.
- a multiplicity of the extracted data symbols is then subjected to well- known error detection, error correction, and synchronization techniques to verify the existence of an actual message and proper interpretation of the content of the message.
- a replica signal 41 is obtained by shifting the frequency of the filtered cover signal 31 by a predetermined offset frequency f as specified by the stego key 9. This shifting process is also known as single sideband amplitude modulation, or frequency translation. In addition to the processing shown in Fig. 5, a number of different techniques known in the art are available to perform this process.
- Blocks 52 and 54 represent respective phase shifts of the input signal s(t) .
- the relationship between the phase shifts must be defined as:
- replica signal 41 can be expressed as:
- r L (t) s (t/ ⁇ i) sin(2 ⁇ f i t) ⁇ s (t, ⁇ 2 ) cos (2 ⁇ fit) (7)
- s(t,(P ) denotes signal s(t) phase-shifted by ⁇ ⁇ .
- ri (t) s h (t) sin(2 ⁇ fit) ⁇ s (t) cos (2 ⁇ fit) (8)
- the Hubert transform may be performed in software by various known algorithms, with equation (8) being suitable for digital signal processing. For analog signal processing, it is easier to design a circuit pair that maintains the 90° relative phase shifts throughout the signal spectrum, than to perform a Hubert transform.
- the particular frequency offset f 1 can be chosen from a wide range of frequencies, and specified by the stego key. Multiple auxiliary signals can be inserted into the same time, frequency and/or space domain of the same cover signal, by having a different frequency offset value, to thus achieve a "layering" of auxiliary signals and increase auxiliary channel throughput.
- the frequency offset also may be varied in time according to a predefined secret pattern (known as "frequency hopping"), to improve the security of a digital watermark represented by the auxiliary information.
- frequency offset values are dependent upon the conditions and parameters of the particular application, and can be further fine tuned by trial and error. According to experimental results, optimal signal robustness in the presence of channel distortion was achieved where the frequency offset value was larger than the majority of spectrum frequencies of the modulating auxiliary signal m(t) . On the other hand, optimal transparency was achieved where the frequency offset value was substantially smaller than the lowest frequency of the cover signal. As an example, for audio signal embedding a cover signal above 500 Hz was used with a frequency offset of 50 Hz, while the modulating signal was a binary data signal with a bit rate of 25 bps .
- the replica is generated by shifting the phase of the filtered/masked portion 31 of the cover signal by a predetermined amount defined by a function ⁇ i (f)for an i- th embedded signal.
- the replica generators 40 and 40a are linear systems having a transfer function defined as:
- ⁇ is a constant with respect to frequency
- j is the imaginary number - 1
- ⁇ f is the phase characteristic of the system. Circuits described by equation (10) are known in the art as all -pass filters or phase correctors, and their design is well-known to those skilled in the art.
- This embodiment is particularly suitable for auxiliary signal embedding in audio signals, since the human audio sensory system is substantially insensitive to phase shifts.
- the functions (Pi(f) are defined to meet the objective that the product of the replica and the cover signal contain minimal low frequency content . This can be achieved by maintaining at least a 90° shift for all frequency components in the filtered/masked signal 31. Multiple embedded messages have been implemented with little interference where the phase shift between frequency components of different messages is larger than 90° for the majority of the spectral components. The exact choice of the function ⁇ ( £ ) is otherwise governed by considerations of tradeoff between cost and security.
- the function should be complex enough so that it is difficult for unauthorized persons to determine the signal structure by analyzing the stego signal, even with the known cover signal, yet it should be computationally inexpensive to implement.
- a function hopping pattern which switches between different functions at predetermined intervals as part of the stego key can be used to further enhance security.
- the replica generator obtains the replica signal by amplitude modulation of the cover signal.
- the amplitude modulation can be expressed by the equation
- the sign of A l ⁇ n depends on the sign of m, (t) during the n-th bit interval, or in other words the transmitted bit value.
- the functions used for amplitude shifting generally should have a small low frequency content, a spectrum below the lowest frequency of the filtered/masked signal, and should be mutually orthogonal. The particular choice of functions depends upon the specific application, and is specified in the stego key.
- a combination of different shifts in different domains can be executed simultaneously to generate a replica signal. For example, a time shift can be combined with a frequency shift, or an amplitude shift can be combined with a phase shift. Such a combination shift can further improve the hiding (security) property of the embedding system, and also improve detectability of the embedded signal by increasing the difference from the cover signal .
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