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Record W2159796637 · doi:10.1109/ccece.2006.277676

Flaw in SVD-based Watermarking

2006· article· en· W2159796637 on OpenAlexaff
Luc Lamarche, Yan Liu, Jiying Zhao

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDigital watermarkingSingular value decompositionWatermarkRobustness (evolution)Computer scienceSingular valueSIGNAL (programming language)AlgorithmMatrix (chemical analysis)Fourier transformShort-time Fourier transformArtificial intelligenceMathematicsPattern recognition (psychology)Image (mathematics)Fourier analysisPhysics

Abstract

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In the recent years, many papers have been published on the use of singular value decomposition (SVD) for watermarking because of its robust nature. The singular values that are produced are very stable and vary very little under attacks. This introduces an ideal medium for which a watermark is embedded for robust watermarking. Nevertheless a severe flaw has been discovered by Zhang and Li in (X. Zhang et al., 2005) which is based on an image watermarking technique proposed by Liu and Tan in (R. Liu et al., 2002). In this paper the discovered flaw is explored and tested for a SVD-based audio watermarking technique proposed by Ozer et al. in (H. Zer et al., 2005) Ozer proposed a technique in which the audio signal is first transformed into matrix form using the short-time Fourier transform (STFT). The SVD is then used to decompose the STFT matrix in order to produce its singular values. As the watermark is embedded, two matrices are formed as a byproduct of the watermark and sent to the detector along with the watermarked signal. The flaw arises in the detection stage of this technique. Experiments show that the detection stage depends primarily on the passed information and depends very little on the watermarked signal. Therefore by altering the watermarked signal with various attacks gives a false sense of robustness and can easily be seen as an extremely robust system

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.793
Threshold uncertainty score0.338

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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