A scheme for estimating two-band amplitude scale attack within a quantization-based watermarking context was presented.Quantization-based watermarking schemes are not robust against linear time invariant(LTI) filtering attacks
on which a multi-band amplitude scaling attack that modifies the spectrum of the signal using an analysis/synthesis filter bank was concentrated.First the probability density function(PDF) of the attacked signal was derived.Second
using a simplified approximation of the PDF model
a maximum likelihood(ML) procedure for estimating two-band amplitude scaling factor was proposed.Finally
experiments were performed with synthetic audio signals showing the good performance of the proposed estimation technique under realistic conditions.