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An Automatic Digital Audio Authentication/Forensics System

Authors :
Zulfiqar Ali
Muhammad Imran
Mansour Alsulaiman
Source :
IEEE Access, Vol 5, Pp 2994-3007 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
IEEE, 2017.

Abstract

With the continuous rise in ingenious forgery, a wide range of digital audio authentication applications are emerging as a preventive and detective control in real-world circumstances, such as forged evidence, breach of copyright protection, and unauthorized data access. To investigate and verify, this paper presents a novel automatic authentication system that differentiates between the forged and original audio. The design philosophy of the proposed system is primarily based on three psychoacoustic principles of hearing, which are implemented to simulate the human sound perception system. Moreover, the proposed system is able to classify between the audio of different environments recorded with the same microphone. To authenticate the audio and environment classification, the computed features based on the psychoacoustic principles of hearing are dangled to the Gaussian mixture model to make automatic decisions. It is worth mentioning that the proposed system authenticates an unknown speaker irrespective of the audio content i.e., independent of narrator and text. To evaluate the performance of the proposed system, audios in multi-environments are forged in such a way that a human cannot recognize them. Subjective evaluation by three human evaluators is performed to verify the quality of the generated forged audio. The proposed system provides a classification accuracy of 99.2% ± 2.6. Furthermore, the obtained accuracy for the other scenarios, such as text-dependent and text-independent audio authentication, is 100% by using the proposed system.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21693536
Volume :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
IEEE Access
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.54d2ead1c821435d9c6fc559a8f171c3
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2672681