Defeating fake-quality MP3

Rui Yang, Yun Q. Shi, Jiwu Huang

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Abstract

MP3 is the most popular audio format nowadays in our daily life, e.g., music on the Internet are often of this format. However, low bit rate MP3s are sometimes transcoded to high bit rate, resulting in fake-quality MP3, to seek commercial benefit. This paper presents a method to defeat this kind of fake-quality MP3. Our experimental study and theoretical analysis have demonstrated that there are fewer MDCT coefficients of small values in fake-quality MP3 than in normal MP3. We use the numbers of small-value MDCT coefficients as features to discriminate fake-quality MP3 from normal MP3. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. To our best knowledge, this work is the first one to find out fake-quality MP3.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMMandSec'09 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Security Workshop
Pages117-124
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event11th ACM Multimedia Security Workshop, MMandSec'09 - Princeton, NJ, United States
Duration: Sep 7 2009Sep 8 2009

Publication series

NameMMandSec'09 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Security Workshop

Other

Other11th ACM Multimedia Security Workshop, MMandSec'09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPrinceton, NJ
Period9/7/099/8/09

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

Keywords

  • Digital audio forensics
  • Fake-quality MP3
  • MDCT coefficient

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