An adaptive spread-spectrum data hiding technique for digital audio

In this paper we describe an application of spread spectrum techniques in audio data hiding for watermarking and steganography. The method is self-synchronizing, cover-dependent, and operates in the time domain. We use a special class of frequency-hop signal known as a Welch-Costas array. Welch-Costas arrays have the properties of range and Doppler resolution. This allows us to recover embedded data with a matched filter. We also demonstrate a special case of an adaptive method due to Su and Girod (2002).

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