Authors: Peng Liu Songbin Li Haiqiang Wang
Publish Date: 2016/01/21
Volume: 76, Issue: 2, Pages: 2837-2859
Abstract
The extensive use of Voice over IP VoIP applications makes low bitrate speech stream a very suitable steganographic cover media To incorporate steganography into low bitrate speech codec we propose a novel approach to embed information during linear predictive coding LPC process based on Matrix Embedding ME In the proposed method a mapping table is constructed based on the criterion of minimum distance of LinearPredictiveCoefficientVectors and embedding position and template are selected according to a private key so as to choose the cover frames The original speech data of the chosen frames are partially encoded to get the codewords for embedding and then the codewords that need to be modified for embedding are selected according to the secret bits and ME algorithm The selected codeword will be changed into its best replacement codeword according to the mapping table When embedding k k 1 bits into 2 k −1 codewords the embedding efficiency of our method is k times as that of LPCbased Quantization Index Modulation method The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated in two aspects distortion in speech quality introduced by embedding and security under steganalysis The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach leads to a better performance with less speech distortion and better securityThis work is supported partly by Natural Science Foundation of Nation and Hainan Province of China under grant 61303249 and 614236 and partly by Important Science Technology Project of Hainan Province of China under grant JDJS2013006 and ZDXM2015103 and partly by Preferred Foundation of Director of Institute of Acoustics Chinese Academy of Sciences and partly by the Young Talent Frontier Project of Institute of Acoustics Chinese Academy of Sciences
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