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MP3Stego is a typical steganographic tool for MP3 audio. Once the cover audio is unavailable, it is hard to distinguish between background noise and steganographic distortion. In this work, the MP3Stego algorithm has been analyzed from a warden's perspective. It is observed that the number of bits in the bit reservoir will be disturbed when the secret message is embedded. In addition, a reliable estimation of cover audio is obtained by the proposed recompression calibration. The calibrated features are classified with support vector machine technique. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is effective and gets good performance, especially when the embedding rate is not less than 0.01 %. The results also shows that the proposed scheme can achieve lower false positive rate comparing to the existing algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of channels is one of the important criteria in regard to digital audio quality. Generally, stereo audio with two channels can provide better perceptual quality than mono audio. To seek illegal commercial benefit, one might convert a mono audio system to stereo with fake quality. Identifying stereo-faking audio is a lesser-investigated audio forensic issue. In this paper, a stereo faking corpus is first presented, which is created using the Haas effect technique. Two identification algorithms for fake stereo audio are proposed. One is based on Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient features and support vector machines. The other is based on a specially designed five-layer convolutional neural network. The experimental results on two datasets with five different cut-off frequencies show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect stereo-faking audio and has good robustness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the widespread availability of cell-phone recording devices, source cell-phone identification has become a hot topic in multimedia forensics. At present, the research on the source cell-phone identification in clean conditions has achieved good results, but that in noisy environments is not ideal. This paper proposes a novel source cell-phone identification system suitable for both clean and noisy environments using spectral distribution features of constant Q transform (CQT) domain and multi-scene training method. Based on the analysis, it is found that the identification difficulty lies in different models of cell-phones of the same brand, and their tiny differences are mainly in the middle and low frequency bands. Therefore, this paper extracts spectral distribution features from the CQT domain, which has a higher frequency resolution in the mid-low frequency. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed feature, four classification techniques of Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neuron Network-Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network (RNN-BLSTM) are used to identify the source recording device. Experimental results show that the features proposed in this paper have superior performance. Compared with Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) and linear frequency cepstral coefficient (LFCC), it enhances the accuracy of cell-phones within the same brand, whether the speech to be tested comprises clean speech files or noisy speech files. In addition, the CNN classification effect is outstanding. In terms of models, the model is established by the multi-scene training method, which improves the distinguishing ability of the model in the noisy environment than single-scenario training method. The average accuracy rate in CNN for clean speech files on the CKC speech database (CKC-SD) and TIMIT Recaptured Database (TIMIT-RD) databases increased from 95.47% and 97.89% to 97.08% and 99.29%, respectively. For noisy speech files with seen noisy types and unseen noisy types, the performance was greatly improved, and most of the recognition rates exceeded 90%. Therefore, the source identification system in this paper is robust to noise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]