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Fingering Watermarking in Symbolic Digital Scores

Gross-Amblard, David; Rigaux, Philippe; Cullot, Nadine; Abrouk, Lylia (2009), Fingering Watermarking in Symbolic Digital Scores, 10th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2009-10, Kobe, Japon

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Communication / Conférence
Date
2009
Conference title
10th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
Conference date
2009-10
Conference city
Kobe
Conference country
Japon
Pages
6
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Author(s)
Gross-Amblard, David
Rigaux, Philippe cc
Cullot, Nadine
Abrouk, Lylia
Abstract (EN)
We propose a new watermarking method that hides the writer’s identity into symbolic musical scores featuring fingering annotations. These annotations constitute a valuable part of the symbolic representation, yet they can be slightly modified without altering the quality of the musical information. The method applies a controlled distortion of the existing fingerings so that unauthorized copies can be identified. The proposed watermarking method is robust against attacks like random fingering alterations and score cropping, and its detection does not require the original fingering, but only the suspect one. The method is general and applies to various fingering contexts and instruments.
Subjects / Keywords
fingering; Watermarking