Deep learning for biometrics: A survey

K Sundararajan, DL Woodard - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
In the recent past, deep learning methods have demonstrated remarkable success for
supervised learning tasks in multiple domains including computer vision, natural language …

Channel-compensated low-level features for speaker recognition

E Khoury, M Garland - US Patent 10,347,256, 2019 - Google Patents
A system for generating channel-compensated features of a speech signal includes a
channel noise simulator that degrades the speech signal, a feed forward convolutional …

Deep learning backend for single and multisession i-vector speaker recognition

O Ghahabi, J Hernando - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of labeled background data makes a big performance gap between cosine and
Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) scoring baseline techniques for i-vectors …

Speaker recognition in the call center

E Khoury, M Garland - US Patent 10,325,601, 2019 - Google Patents
Utterances of at least two speakers in a speech signal may be distinguished and the
associated speaker identified by use of diarization together with automatic speech …

Restricted Boltzmann machines for vector representation of speech in speaker recognition

O Ghahabi, J Hernando - Computer Speech & Language, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last few years, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art technique in speaker
recognition. Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) technology have improved the quality …

Dimensionality reduction of baum-welch statistics for speaker recognition

E Khoury, M Garland - US Patent 10,553,218, 2020 - Google Patents
In a speaker recognition apparatus, audio features are extracted from a received recognition
speech signal, and first order Gaussian mixture model (GMM) statistics are gener ated …

[PDF][PDF] Biometric technologies in recognition systems: a survey

SA Shawkat, RN Ismail - Tikrit Journal of Pure Science, 2019 - iasj.net
The ability to recognize people uniquely and to associate personal attributes such as name
and nationality with them has been very important to the fabric of human society. Nowadays …

Feature classification by means of deep belief networks for speaker recognition

P Safari, O Ghahabi, J Hernando - 2015 23rd European Signal …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose to discriminatively model target and impostor spectral features
using Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for speaker recognition. In the feature level, the number …

Restricted boltzmann machine vectors for speaker clustering and tracking tasks in tv broadcast shows

U Khan, P Safari, J Hernando - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) have shown success in both the front-end and
backend of speaker verification systems. In this paper, we propose applying RBMs to the …

Joint estimation of PLDA and nonlinear transformations of speaker vectors

S Cumani, P Laface - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Gaussian probabilistic linear discriminant anal-ysis (PLDA) model assumes Gaussian
distributed priors for the latent variables that represent the speaker and channel factors …