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Table 7 BER values due to Stirmark ® attacks

From: An imperceptible and robust audio watermarking algorithm

Stirmark attack

Extracted watermark (pop)

Pop audio

Instrumental audio

Speech audio

Average BER

AddBrumm (55 Hz Sinus)

0

0

0

0

AddSinus (3000 Hz sinus)

0

0

0

0

AddNoise (20 dB level)

0

0

0

0

Stat1 (statistical distortion)

0

0

0

0

Stat2 (statistical distortion)

0

0

0

0

Smooth1 (simple smoothing)

0.80

1.40

0.36

0.853

Smooth2 (simple smoothing)

0.65

1.34

0.29

0.760

Amplify (increases amplitude)

0

0

0

0

Invert (phase shift 180°)

0

0

0

0

Exchange (swaps samples)

5.01

5.54

3.68

4.74

CutSamples (7 samples per 1,000)

2.41

3.11

1.08

2.20

LSBZero (reset LSBs)

0

0

0

0

ZeroCross (reset samples)

0

0

0

0

ZeroRemove (removes 0 samples)

0

0

0

0