Ms. GALAJIT, Kasorn (1st year doctoral student in Unoki Lab.) and Prof. Masashi Unoki, Human Life Design Area, received Best Paper Award in IIH-MSP 2018.

The Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 2018), is technically co-sponsored by Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University in Japan, Fujian University of Technology in China, Taiwan Association for Web Intelligence Consortium, Shandong University of Science and Technology in China, and IEEE Signal Processing Society Sendai Chapter.

■Date Awarded
November 27, 2018

■Authors
Kasorn Galajit, Jessada Karnjana, Pakinee Aimmanee, Masashi Unoki

■Title
Digital Audio Watermarking Method Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis with Automatic Parameter Estimation Using a Convolutional Neural Network

■Abstract
The paper is a continuation idea of the paper relating audio watermarking based on singular spectrum analysis. In our previous work, an audio watermarking method based on the singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) with a differential evolution (DE) algorithm for parameter estimation is studied. In this study, we replaced DE with CNN-based parameter estimation. The experimental results showed that the computational time of the scheme with CNN-based parameter is significantly reduced by 96,923 times. The sound quality and the robustness were well balanced. Moreover, the scheme was a blind method.

■Comment
I am very grateful to receive the best paper award of iiHMSP2018. The paper is a continuation idea of the paper relating audio watermarking based on singular spectrum analysis. First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Masashi Unoki, and my co-advisor Dr. Jessada Karnjana and Dr. Pakinee Aimmanee. My research started with improving their previous work which provided me with a good guidance and motivation. I am sure that these supports will help me in the future to be a good researcher. Moreover, I would like to express my gratitude to the support of the NSTDA-SIIT-JAIST's scholarship. It would be impossible for me to conduct my research without the great guidance and the scholarship.

December 14, 2018