Seminar Topic : Digital audio watermarking

. Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Intoduction:
Digital audio watermarking involves the concealment of data within a discrete audio file.  Applications for this technology are numerous.  Intellectual property protection is currently the main driving force behind research in this area.  To combat online music piracy, a digital watermark could be added to all recording prior to release, signifying not only the author of the work, but the user who has purchased a legitimate copy.  Newer operating systems equipped with digital rights management software (DRM) will extract the watermark from audio files prior to playing them on the system.  The DRM software will ensure that the user has paid for the song by comparing the watermark to the existing purchased licences on the system.
Other non-rights related uses for watermarking technology include embedding auxiliary information which is related to a particular song, like lyrics, album information, or a small web page, etc.  Watermarking could be used in voice conferencing systems to indicate to others which party is currently speaking.  A video application of this technology would consist of embedding subtitles or closed captioning information as a watermark.

Difficulty : Medium

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