It is an adaptive expanding transform jitter modulation watermarking method. The expanding transform jitter modulation watermarking has the advantages both quantitative index modulation watermarking and spread spectrum communication system, and it has a good performance against attack. However, the original STDM method uses the fixed quantization step, which takes no account of human perceptual model, so its performance is greatly limited. The invention introduces a human perception model/signal quality evaluation method to the original STDM, used to measure the distortion introduced by watermarking and compute a weighted sequence, and the use of weighted plastic watermarking idea changes host signals, to make the local variable capacity of the host signal apply for the human perception system; re-designing the quantization step to meet the distortion conditions determined by un-perceptibility. Using the method described in the invention, the embedded watermark can fully use the local characteristics of carrier signal, adaptive design the quantization step, greatly enhance the watermark robustness, and at the same time achieve a good watermark un-perceptibility.