This book illustrates the commonly used and novel approaches of audio watermarking for copyrights protection. The author examines the theoretical and practical step by step guide to the topic of data hiding in audio signal such as music, speech, broadcast. The book covers new techniques developed by the authors are fully explained and MATLAB programs, for audio watermarking and audio quality assessments and also discusses methods for objectively predicting the perceptual quality of the watermarked audio signals.

Explains the theoretical basics of the commonly used audio watermarking techniques

Discusses the methods used to objectively and subjectively assess the quality of the audio signals

Provides a comprehensive well tested MATLAB programs that can be used efficiently to watermark any audio media

Dr. Waleed H. Abdulla is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Auckland and serves as the Vice President of APSIPA Yiqing (Tina) Lin is a BI Analyst & Developer, Global Human Development | Auckland, Golder Associates.