Localization of Copy-Move Forgery in speech signals through watermarking using DCT-QIM

Authors

  • N.V. Lalitha GMR Institute of Technology
  • Ch. Srinivasa Rao JNTU-K University
  • P.V.Y. JayaSree GIT, GITAM University

Abstract

Digital speech copyright protection and forgery identification are the prevalent issues in our advancing digital world. In speech forgery, voiced part of the speech signal is copied and pasted to a specific location which alters the meaning of the speech signal. Watermarking can be used to safe guard the copyrights of the owner. To detect copy-move forgeries a transform domain watermarking method is proposed. In the proposed method, watermarking is achieved through Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) rule. Hash bits are also inserted in watermarked voice segments to detect Copy-Move Forgery (CMF) in speech signals. Proposed method is evaluated on two databases and achieved good imperceptibility. It exhibits robustness in detecting the watermark and forgeries against signal processing attacks such as resample, low-pass filtering, jittering, compression and cropping. The proposed work contributes for forensics analysis in speech signals. This proposed work also compared with the some of the state-of-art methods.

Author Biographies

N.V. Lalitha, GMR Institute of Technology

N. V. Lalitha is presently pursuing PhD at GIT, GITAM University. She obtained her M.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada and B.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. Presently, she is working as Assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Srikakulam District. She is having 10 years of teaching experience. Her research interests are Audio and Image Processing. She is a Life Member of IETE.

Ch. Srinivasa Rao, JNTU-K University

Srinivasa Rao Ch is currently working as Professor in the Department of ECE, JNTUK University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, AP, India. He obtained his PhD in Digital Image Processing area from University College of Engineering, JNTUK, Kakinada, AP, India. He received his M. Tech degree from the same institute. He published more than 50 research papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests are Digital Speech/Image and Video Processing, Communication Engineering and Evolutionary Algorithms. He is a Member of CSI. Dr Rao is a Fellow of IETE.

P.V.Y. JayaSree, GIT, GITAM University

P. V. Y. Jayasree is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of ECE, GIT, GITAM University. She obtained her PhD from University College of Engineering, JNTUK, Kakinada, AP, India. She received M.E. from Andhra University. She published more than 50 research papers in international journals and conferences. Her research interests are Signal Processing, EMI/EMC, RF & Microwaves.

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2024-04-19

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Vol. 65 No. 3 (2019)

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