IDEAW: Robust Neural Audio Watermarking with Invertible Dual-Embedding

Pengcheng Li, Xulong Zhang, Jing Xiao, Jianzong Wang


Abstract
The audio watermarking technique embeds messages into audio and accurately extracts messages from the watermarked audio. Traditional methods develop algorithms based on expert experience to embed watermarks into the time-domain or transform-domain of signals. With the development of deep neural networks, deep learning-based neural audio watermarking has emerged. Compared to traditional algorithms, neural audio watermarking achieves better robustness by considering various attacks during training. However, current neural watermarking methods suffer from low capacity and unsatisfactory imperceptibility. Additionally, the issue of watermark locating, which is extremely important and even more pronounced in neural audio water- marking, has not been adequately studied. In this paper, we design a dual-embedding wa- termarking model for efficient locating. We also consider the impact of the attack layer on the invertible neural network in robustness training, improving the model to enhance both its reasonableness and stability. Experiments show that the proposed model, IDEAW, can withstand various attacks with higher capacity and more efficient locating ability compared to existing methods.
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2024.emnlp-main.258
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4500–4511
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.258
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.258
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Pengcheng Li, Xulong Zhang, Jing Xiao, and Jianzong Wang. 2024. IDEAW: Robust Neural Audio Watermarking with Invertible Dual-Embedding. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4500–4511, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IDEAW: Robust Neural Audio Watermarking with Invertible Dual-Embedding (Li et al., EMNLP 2024)
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