A Robust Audio Fingerprinting Using a New Hashing Method

To enhance the tracking performance of illegal audio copies, we introduce a robust audio fingerprinting method against various attacks in this paper. Most audio fingerprints consist of the information in the frequency band of audio. These fingerprinting methods may lose the uniqueness of the audio fingerprint by irregular movement such as an attack with pitch value changes. The proposed fingerprint method in a fundamental frequency band makes up for the weakness of existing methods generated from frequency domain. Using the geometrical property of the proposed method, a new hashing method is employed in the similarity calculation process to compare the audio contents. In order to prove the validity of proposed algorithm, we experiment for six environments such as tempo, pitch, speed modification, noise addition, low pass filter and high pass filter. The proposed method shows the highest level of performance in most experimental environments. Especially, with respect to the tempo, pitch, and speed manipulation experiments, the proposed method archives the precision rate of the range from 95 to 100% according to the degree of manipulation, which compares favorably with the precision rate obtained by traditional approaches, and yields a precision rate between 85 and 100% in noise addition and filtering experiments.