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StirMark Benchmark for Audio (SMBA)
Evaluation of watermarking schemes for audio







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Digital watermarking has become an accepted technology for enabling multimedia protection schemes. Copyright protection for digital media is a prominent example for robust watermarks. But most researcher and developer has his own test environment and test material. This makes it impossible to compare two watermarking algorithms. StirMark wants to solve the problem by using a test environment and the same test material. The first step is a tool with provides many evaluation tests with the digital watermark.
StirMark for Audio is a tool which modifies the signal of the audio file. The goal is to delete, remove or destroy the digital watermark or to perturb the syncronisation. Of course, the manipulation reduces the audio quality, but you can set the strong with the parameters.


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