Exposing the double compression in MP3 audio by frequency vibration

Abstract

A novel approach is presented to detect double compressed MP3 audio by frequency vibration. With the analysis of double compression effect on MDCT (Modified Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients in MP3 audio, we propose a simple feature called FVV (frequency vibration value) to measure the vibration caused by double compression. The experimental results on challenging dataset show that our method outperforms most of the existing methods in double MP3 compression detection, especially with a second bitrate higher than the first one. Besides, we can also estimate the original bit-rate for a double compressed MP3 by this technique.