scholarly journals Synchronization of Acoustic Signals for Steganographic Transmission

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3379
Author(s):  
Jarosław Wojtuń ◽  
Zbigniew Piotrowski

Steganography is a technique that makes it possible to hide additional information (payload) in the original signal (cover work). This paper focuses on hiding information in a speech signal. One of the major problems with steganographic systems is ensuring synchronization. The paper presents four new and effective mechanisms that allow achievement of synchronization on the receiving side. Three of the developed methods of synchronization operate directly on the acoustic signal, while the fourth method works in the higher layer, analyzing the structure of the decoded steganographic data stream. The results of the research concerning both the evaluation of signal quality and the effectiveness of synchronization are presented. The signal quality was assessed based on both objective and subjective methods. The conducted research confirmed the effectiveness of the developed methods of synchronization during the transmission of steganographic data in the VHF radio link and in the VoIP channel.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Lavrentyeva ◽  
Marina Volkova ◽  
Anastasia Avdeeva ◽  
Sergey Novoselov ◽  
Artem Gorlanov ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey M. Sussman ◽  
David Fruchter ◽  
Jon Hilbert ◽  
Joseph Sirosh

Neuroethological investigations of mammalian and avian auditory systems have documented species-specific specializations for processing complex acoustic signals that could, if viewed in abstract terms, have an intriguing and striking relevance for human speech sound categorization and representation. Each species forms biologically relevant categories based on combinatorial analysis of information-bearing parameters within the complex input signal. This target article uses known neural models from the mustached bat and barn owl to develop, by analogy, a conceptualization of human processing of consonant plus vowel sequences that offers a partial solution to the noninvariance dilemma – the nontransparent relationship between the acoustic waveform and the phonetic segment. Critical input sound parameters used to establish species-specific categories in the mustached bat and barn owl exhibit high correlation and linearity due to physical laws. A cue long known to be relevant to the perception of stop place of articulation is the second formant (F2) transition. This article describes an empirical phenomenon – the locus equations – that describes the relationship between the F2 of a vowel and the F2 measured at the onset of a consonant-vowel (CV) transition. These variables, F2 onset and F2 vowel within a given place category, are consistently and robustly linearly correlated across diverse speakers and languages, and even under perturbation conditions as imposed by bite blocks. A functional role for this category-level extreme correlation and linearity (the “orderly output constraint”) is hypothesized based on the notion of an evolutionarily conserved auditory-processing strategy. High correlation and linearity between critical parameters in the speech signal that help to cue place of articulation categories might have evolved to satisfy a preadaptation by mammalian auditory systems for representing tightly correlated, linearly related components of acoustic signals.


2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-404
Author(s):  
Zoran Milivojevic ◽  
Dragisa Balaneskovic

This paper presents an algorithm for enhancement of the noisy speech signal quality. This algorithm is based on the dissonant frequency filtering (DFF), F#, B and C# in relation to the frequency of the primary tone C (DFF-FBC algorithm). By means of the subjective Mean Opinion Score (MOS) test, the effect of the enhancement of the speech signal quality was analyzed. The analysis of the MOS test results, presented in the second part of this paper, points out to the enhancement of the noisy speech signal quality in the presence of superimposed noises. Especially good results have been found with Husky Voice signal. .


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 729-737
Author(s):  
Gong Chen ◽  
Lei Cai ◽  
Lv Zong ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xin Yuan

Passive acoustic technology (PAT) is an important tool to acquire the passive acoustic signals from marine organisms. In this paper, PAT fish detection is introduced at great length, including the relevant instruments, signal processing methods, and workflow. Focusing on the key tasks of PAT fish detection, the authors proposed a sparse decomposition algorithm that extracts coherent ratio of passive fish acoustic signal, and designed a feature extraction method for that signal based on speech imitation technology. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed sparse decomposition algorithm can detect fish acoustic signal accurately at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), and the proposed feature extraction method can effectively extract fish acoustic signals from the marine background. The research results shed important new light on the protection and management of fishery resources in the seas and oceans.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 220-231
Author(s):  
Hong Kun Wang ◽  
Shou Xiang Wang ◽  
Jing Nie

Abstract With the formation of China’s large power grid, the security of the network is particularly important. The contaminant flashover of insulators has a serious impact on the operation safety of a high voltage power network. In this paper, the acoustic signals’ characteristics of the contaminant insulators flashover are analyzed, and, as a result, the correlation between the acoustic signal and the contaminant insulator flashover is established. To experiment with contaminant insulator for three different Equivalent Salt Deposit Densities (ESDD), acoustic signals were collected separately. Then, the contaminant insulators’ acoustic signals of flashover were analyzed by wavelet packet. The characteristics of the signals were obtained, and they can be judged for contaminant flashover warning.


Author(s):  
Таtiana М. Tkachenko ◽  
Yulia H. Pilkevich ◽  
Heorhii M. Rozorinov

The basic sources of contamination and obstruction of reservoirs are cleared not enough sewer water of industrial and communal enterprises, large stock-raising complexes, wastes of production; upcast of water and railway transport; wastes of roughing-out of flax, pesticides and other. Сontaminents, getting in natural reservoirs, result in the quality changes of water, that, mainly, appear in the change of physical properties of water, in the change of chemical composition of water, in a presence floating substances on the surface of water and laying of them on the bottom of reservoirs. The increases of population, expansion of old and origin of new cities considerably increased entering of domestic flows internal reservoirs. Synthetic cleansers that is widely used in the way of life contaminate reservoirs in a yet greater degree. In the total the capacity of waters goes down for oxigenating, activity of bacteria that mineralize organic substances is paralysed. The unfavorable ecological state of many freshwater ecosystems inflicts substantial harm to the fish resources of reservoirs and puts under a threat possibility not only to develop fish industry, conducting fish artificially, but also simply to catch her. All of it stimulate to do events in relation to the improvement of the ecological state of fresh reservoirs. Voice vibrations are the important constituent of the ecological monitoring of the biota state of fresh reservoirs. Information is about formation of sound in a reservoir part of that is activity of fishes turns out by means of acoustic sensors, that farther yields to computer treatment. The modern methods of recognition of fish acoustic patterns are based on the standards of signals, with properties of average estimations, or on comparisons of acoustic signals with a standard. It is shown that for creation of standards, as a rule, executed: previous signal processing, extraction of features of acoustic signal. Acoustic signals that act from movable objects – fishes can change depending on objective external terms and physical state of reservoirs. The hard algorithms of recognition of acoustic patterns are characterized high probability of error. In this connection repressing are adaptive algorithms of recognition of acoustic patterns. In the process of forming of standards clarification of software comes true according to the features of acoustic signal. Realization of process of creation of standards allows to determine the measure of functional readiness of parameters and knowledge base for the decision of recognition tasks of acoustic signals. In the process of recognition the probability terms of the correct comparing are set to the standard, on default of that an algorithm stops to be executed and requires additional studies. It requires creation of standards that reflect the characteristic features of fish signals. Presently for authentication mostly choose such pattern of acoustic signals, as period length of signal fundamental wave. It can be determined or by the search of maximal value in an autocorrelation function, or by the search of minimum value in the function of mean value of difference of signal amplitudes, or by the search of difference of two maximal values in the sequence of going into detail wavelet-coefficients. It is shown that for the tasks of recognition of fish acoustic patterns, most exact and requiring the least studies there is presentation of acoustic signal as a set of sign vectors of frames. In detail methodologies of the period selection of fundamental wave of acoustic signal were analysed: SIFT, EFT-А and EFT-WT. Methodology of EFT-WT is characterized absence of the thresholds set in good time; by the rapid search of period of fundamental wave; by absence of dependence on a noise-level, as a certain range of frequencies is investigated. At the same time calculable complication of wavelet transform is relatively high, in this connection it is necessary optimization of calculation algorithms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2012-2016

This paper presents a novel technique for calculation of attenuation of acoustic signals in the materials in underwater channel. A laboratory procedure and algorithms have been developed for finding attenuation. In many applications like sonar signal processing acoustic signal attenuation in the dome or in an enclosure are required to be known. Finding the actual attenuation while signal passes through the materials is very useful in calculating the precise power transmitted through the enclosures. The attenuation in materials mainly dependent on type of material, signal frequency and launch angle of the signal. A proper procedure has been presented in this paper


2017 ◽  
Vol 755 ◽  
pp. 212-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Kravcov ◽  
Adam Konvalinka ◽  
Vladimir A. Vinnikov ◽  
Elmira A. Ertuganova ◽  
Ivan A. Shibaev ◽  
...  

It is shown that one of the express-methods for studying the internal structure and phase composition of geomaterial samples is broadband acoustic spectroscopy with laser sources of ultrasound. Theoretical assessment of time profiles and spectrums of opto-acoustic signals are presented. Numerical modelling of the spectrums and time profiles of ultrasound signals generated in opto-acoustic generators made of a different material is performed. The influence of diffraction and damping in rocks on the above characteristics is studied. The amplitude spectrum and time profiles of ultrasonic pulses transmitted through samples of marble of various thicknesses in which the most part of the characteristic grain sizes lies in the range of 500 μm - 1 mm are constructed. It has been established that, according to the amplitude spectrum of the original signal and the transmitted through the sample signal, it is possible to restore the characteristic dimensions of the grains.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Wei Kan ◽  
Qiu-Yu Li ◽  
Lei Pan

Abstract The scattering behavior of the anisotropic acoustic medium is analyzed to reveal the possibility of routing acoustic signals through the anisotropic layers with no backscattering loss. The sound-transparent effect of such medium is achieved by independently modulating the anisotropic effective acoustic parameters in a specific order, and experimentally observed in a bending waveguide by arranging the subwavelength structures in the bending part according to transformation acoustics. With the properly designed filling structures, the original distorted acoustic field in the bending waveguide is restored as if the wave travels along a straight path. The transmitted acoustic signal is maintained nearly the same as the incident modulated Gaussian pulse. The proposed schemes and the supporting results could be instructive for further acoustic manipulations such as wave steering, cloaking and beam splitting.


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