10 accepted papers
In this work, we address the challenge of estimating principal components in the presence of outliers, a problem commonly referred to as robust principal component analysis (PCA). Traditional PCA minimizes the Euclidean norm, making it vulnerable to outliers. To enhance robustness, earlier approache…
This study investigates the explainability of embedding representations, specifically those used in modern audio spoofing detection systems based on deep neural networks, known as spoof embeddings. Building on established work in speaker embedding explainability, we examine how well these spoof embe…
Despite the promising performance of state-of-the-art approaches for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) detection, these approaches often analyze individual speech segments in isolation, which can lead to sub-optimal results. Dysarthric cues that characterize speech impairments from PD patients are expected t…
Spectral clustering has proven effective in grouping speech representations for speaker diarization tasks, although post-processing the affinity matrix remains difficult due to the need for careful tuning before constructing the Laplacian. In this study, we present a novel pruning algorithm to creat…
In this study, we focus on nonlinear compression methods in spectral features for speaker verification based on deep neural network. We consider different kinds of channel-dependent (CD) nonlinear compression methods optimized in a data-driven manner. Our methods are based on power nonlinearities an…
Speech data conveys sensitive speaker attributes like identity or accent. With a small amount of found data, such attributes can be inferred and exploited for malicious purposes: voice cloning, spoofing, etc. Anonymization aims to make the data unlinkable, i.e., ensure that no utterance can be linke…
We consider technology-assisted mimicry attacks in the context of automatic speaker verification (ASV). We use ASV itself to select targeted speakers to be attacked by human-based mimicry. We recorded 6 naive mimics for whom we select target celebrities from VoxCeleb1 and VoxCeleb2 corpora (7,365 po…
It is well-known that for speaker recognition task, gender-dependent acoustic modeling performs better than gender-independent modeling. The practice is to use the gender ground-truth and to train gender-dependent models. However, such information is not necessarily available, especially if speakers…
Voice-based biometric systems are highly prone to spoofing attacks. Recently, various countermeasures have been developed for detecting different kinds of attacks such as replay, speech synthesis (SS) and voice conversion (VC). Most of the existing studies are conducted with a specific training set…
This paper describes a new database for the assessment of automatic speaker verification (ASV) vulnerabilities to spoofing attacks. In contrast to other recent data collection efforts, the new database has been designed to support the development of replay spoofing countermeasures tailored towards t…