scholarly journals Data Augmentation for Speaker Identification under Stress Conditions to Combat Gender-Based Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Rituerto-González ◽  
Alba Mínguez-Sánchez ◽  
Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín ◽  
Carmen Peláez-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Using Data

A Speaker Identification system for a personalized wearable device to combat gender-based violence is presented in this paper. Speaker recognition systems exhibit a decrease in performance when the user is under emotional or stress conditions, thus the objective of this paper is to measure the effects of stress in speech to ultimately try to mitigate their consequences on a speaker identification task, by using data augmentation techniques specifically tailored for this purpose given the lack of data resources for this condition. An extensive experimentation has been carried out for assessing the effectiveness of the proposed techniques. First, we conclude that the best performance is always obtained when naturally stressed samples are included in the training set, and second, when these are not available, their substitution and augmentation with synthetically generated stress-like samples improves the performance of the system.

scholarly journals Performance Evaluation of Mel and Bark Scale based Features for Text-Independent Speaker Identification

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 3734-3738
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Filter Bank ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Bank Structure ◽  
Speech Features ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Human Ear

The performance of Mel scale and Bark scale is evaluated for text-independent speaker identification system. Mel scale and Bark scale are designed according to human auditory system. The filter bank structure is defined using Mel and Bark scales for speech and speaker recognition systems to extract speaker specific speech features. In this work, performance of Mel scale and Bark scale is evaluated for text-independent speaker identification system. It is found that Bark scale centre frequencies are more effective than Mel scale centre frequencies in case of Indian dialect speaker databases. Mel scale is defined as per interpretation of pitch by human ear and Bark scale is based on critical band selectivity at which loudness becomes significantly different. The recognition rate achieved using Bark scale filter bank is 96% for AISSMSIOIT database and 95% for Marathi database.

New Feature Vectors using GFCC for Speaker Identification

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
A. Nagesh
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Identification Performance ◽  
Feature Vectors ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
New Feature

The feature vectors of speaker identification system plays a crucial role in the overall performance of the system. There are many new feature vectors extraction methods based on MFCC, but ultimately we want to maximize the performance of SID system.  The objective of this paper to derive Gammatone Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (GFCC) based a new set of feature vectors using Gaussian Mixer model (GMM) for speaker identification. The MFCC are the default feature vectors for speaker recognition, but they are not very robust at the presence of additive noise. The GFCC features in recent studies have shown very good robustness against noise and acoustic change. The main idea is  GFCC features based on GMM feature extraction is to improve the overall speaker identification performance in low signal to noise ratio (SNR) conditions.

GaitSense: Towards Ubiquitous Gait-Based Human Identification with Wi-Fi

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Yue Zheng ◽  
Guidong Zhang ◽  
Kun Qian ◽  
Chen Qian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Gait Recognition ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Human Identification ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Gait Patterns ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Augmentation Techniques

Gait, the walking manner of a person, has been perceived as a physical and behavioral trait for human identification. Compared with cameras and wearable sensors, Wi-Fi-based gait recognition is more attractive because Wi-Fi infrastructure is almost available everywhere and is able to sense passively without the requirement of on-body devices. However, existing Wi-Fi sensing approaches impose strong assumptions of fixed user walking trajectories, sufficient training data, and identification of already known users. In this article, we present GaitSense , a Wi-Fi-based human identification system, to overcome the above unrealistic assumptions. To deal with various walking trajectories and speeds, GaitSense first extracts target specific features that best characterize gait patterns and applies novel normalization algorithms to eliminate gait irrelevant perturbation in signals. On this basis, GaitSense reduces the training efforts in new deployment scenarios by transfer learning and data augmentation techniques. GaitSense also enables a distinct feature of illegal user identification by anomaly detection, making the system readily available for real-world deployment. Our implementation and evaluation with commodity Wi-Fi devices demonstrate a consistent identification accuracy across various deployment scenarios with little training samples, pushing the limit of gait recognition with Wi-Fi signals.

scholarly journals Comparison of feature extraction and normalization methods for speaker recognition using grid-audiovisual database

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 782
Author(s):  
Musab T. S. Al-Kaltakchi ◽  
Haithem Abd Al-Raheem Taha ◽  
Mohanad Abd Shehab ◽  
Mohamed A.M. Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Good Representation ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Normalization Methods ◽  
Cepstral Coefficients

<p><span lang="EN-GB">In this paper, different feature extraction and feature normalization methods are investigated for speaker recognition. With a view to give a good representation of acoustic speech signals, Power Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (PNCCs) and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) are employed for feature extraction. Then, to mitigate the effect of linear channel, Cepstral Mean-Variance Normalization (CMVN) and feature warping are utilized. The current paper investigates Text-independent speaker identification system by using 16 coefficients from both the MFCCs and PNCCs features. Eight different speakers are selected from the GRID-Audiovisual database with two females and six males. The speakers are modeled using the coupling between the Universal Background Model and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM-UBM) in order to get a fast scoring technique and better performance. The system shows 100% in terms of speaker identification accuracy. The results illustrated that PNCCs features have better performance compared to the MFCCs features to identify females compared to male speakers. Furthermore, feature wrapping reported better performance compared to the CMVN method. </span></p>

scholarly journals Analyzing the Effects of Data Augmentation on Single and Multimodal Biometrics

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-656
Author(s):  
Mehwish Leghari ◽  
Shahzad Memon ◽  
Lachman Das Dhomeja ◽  
Akhter Hussain Jalbani
Keyword(s):  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Fingerprint Recognition ◽  
Multimodal Biometrics ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
Signature Recognition ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Level Fusion

Now-a-days, in the field of machine learning the data augmentation techniques are common in use, especially with deep neural networks, where a large amount of data is required to train the network. The effectiveness of the data augmentation technique has been analyzed for many applications; however, it has not been analyzed separately for the multimodal biometrics. This research analyzes the effects of data augmentation on single biometric data and multimodal biometric data. In this research, the features from two biometric modalities: fingerprint and signature, have been fused together at the feature level. The primary motivation for fusing biometric data at feature level is to secure the privacy of the user’s biometric data. The results that have been achieved by using data augmentation are presented in this research. The experimental results for the fingerprint recognition, signature recognition and the feature-level fusion of fingerprint with signature have been presented separately. The results show that the accuracy of the training classifier can be enhanced with data augmentation techniques when the size of real data samples is insufficient. This research study explores that how the effectiveness of data augmentation gradually increases with the number of templates for the fused biometric data by making the number of templates double each time until the classifier achieved the accuracy of 99%.

scholarly journals SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION MENGGUNAKAN TRANSFORMASI WAVELET DISKRIT DAN JARINGAN SARAF TIRUAN BACK-PROPAGATION

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anny Tandyo ◽  
Martono Martono ◽  
Adi Widyatmoko
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Discrete Transformation ◽  
Artificial Neural

Article discussed a speaker identification system. Which was a part of speaker recognition. The system identified asubject based on the voice from a group of pattern had been saved before. This system used a wavelet discrete transformationas a feature extraction method and an artificial neural network of back-propagation as a classification method. The voiceinput was processed by the wavelet discrete transformation in order to obtain signal coefficient of low frequency as adecomposition result which kept voice characteristic of everyone. The coefficient then was classified artificial neural networkof back-propagation. A system trial was conducted by collecting voice samples directly by using 225 microphones in nonsoundproof rooms; contained of 15 subjects (persons) and each of them had 15 voice samples. The 10 samples were used as atraining voice and 5 others as a testing voice. Identification accuracy rate reached 84 percent. The testing was also done onthe subjects who pronounced same words. It can be concluded that, the similar selection of words by different subjects has noinfluence on the accuracy rate produced by system.Keywords: speaker identification, wavelet discrete transformation, artificial neural network, back-propagation.

scholarly journals Self-Organizing Representation Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
noureddine kermiche
Keyword(s):  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Representation Learning ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Self Organizing Maps ◽  
Output Layer ◽  
Data Representations ◽  
Augmentation Techniques ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Self Organizing

Using data augmentation techniques, unsupervised representation learning methods extract features from data by training artificial neural networks to recognize that different views of an object are just different instances of the same object. We extend current unsupervised representation learning methods to networks that can self-organize data representations into two-dimensional (2D) maps. The proposed method combines ideas from Kohonen’s original self-organizing maps (SOM) and recent development in unsupervised representation learning. A ResNet backbone with an added 2D <i>Softmax</i> output layer is used to organize the data representations. A new loss function with linear complexity is proposed to enforce SOM requirements of winner-take-all (WTA) and competition between neurons while explicitly avoiding collapse into trivial solutions. We show that enforcing SOM topological neighborhood requirement can be achieved by a fixed radial convolution at the 2D output layer without having to resort to actual radial activation functions which prevented the original SOM algorithm from being extended to nowadays neural network architectures. We demonstrate that when combined with data augmentation techniques, self-organization is a simple emergent property of the 2D output layer because of neighborhood recruitment combined with WTA competition between neurons. The proposed methodology is demonstrated on SVHN and CIFAR10 data sets. The proposed algorithm is the first end-to-end unsupervised learning method that combines data self-organization and visualization as integral parts of unsupervised representation learning.

An Experimental Comparison of Modeling Techniques and Combination of Speaker – Specific Information from Different Languages for Multilingual Speaker Identification

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-538
Author(s):  
H.S. Jayanna ◽  
B.G. Nagaraja
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Experimental Comparison ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Modeling Techniques

AbstractMost of the state-of-the-art speaker identification systems work on a monolingual (preferably English) scenario. Therefore, English-language autocratic countries can use the system efficiently for speaker recognition. However, there are many countries, including India, that are multilingual in nature. People in such countries have habituated to speak multiple languages. The existing speaker identification system may yield poor performance if a speaker’s train and test data are in different languages. Thus, developing a robust multilingual speaker identification system is an issue in many countries. In this work, an experimental evaluation of the modeling techniques, including self-organizing map (SOM), learning vector quantization (LVQ), and Gaussian mixture model-universal background model (GMM-UBM) classifiers for multilingual speaker identification, is presented. The monolingual and crosslingual speaker identification studies are conducted using 50 speakers of our own database. It is observed from the experimental results that the GMM-UBM classifier gives better identification performance than the SOM and LVQ classifiers. Furthermore, we propose a combination of speaker-specific information from different languages for crosslingual speaker identification, and it is observed that the combination feature gives better performance in all the crosslingual speaker identification experiments.

scholarly journals Safeguarding women’s and girls’ wellbeing: Exploring the role of gender-based violence on HIV transmission in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munyaradzi Mapingure ◽  
Zindoga Mukandavire ◽  
Innocent Chingombe ◽  
Rouzeh Eghtessadi ◽  
Diego F. Cuadros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Hiv Status ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Mapping Techniques ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Background Gender-based violence (GBV) is a growing epidemic, whose role in HIV transmissions remains minimally addressed by the majority of national HIV response interventions. Methods Statistical and geo-spatial analysis was used to explore the relationship between GBV variables and HIV status using data from Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey, 2015-16. Results Women who were ever humiliated by their husbands or partners were 1.45 times more likely to be HIV positive than those who were never humiliated, p = 0.002. The same was true for women whose husbands or partners ever threatened to harm them or someone they love, OR (95%CI) 1.33 (1.04–1.68), p = 0.022. There was a positive association between HIV status and women who reported that their husband or partner, either pushed, shook, or threw something at them or punched them with his fist or with something that could hurt them or kicked, dragged or beat them, or tried to choke or burn them on purpose or threatened or attacked them with a knife or gun, or any other weapon. Women who experienced forced sexual violence with threats were more likely (odds 1.61, p = 0.019), to be HIV positive than those women who did not experience the same. Using geospatial mapping techniques our study has shown a substantial countrywide epidemic of GBV against women in Zimbabwe requiring urgent attention. Emotional GBV had a similar geographical distribution with HIV in the northern part of the country, where all three types of violence tend to aggregate. Conclusion There is a significant association between forms of GBV (emotional, physical, and sexual) and HIV status. The results suggest the need to strengthen interventions that empower women and girls with skills to withstand violence in order to curb HIV transmission. The engagement of men as proponents of gender equality, bringing other men to account for perpetuating GBV and actively countering violence against women and girls, is critical to the design of such interventions.

scholarly journals A CNN based Speaker Recognition System using an Alternate Bone Microphone

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4224-4227
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Video Recorder ◽  
State Of Art

State-of-art speaker recognition system uses acoustic microphone speech to identify/verify a speaker. The multimodal speaker recognition system includes modality of input data recorded using sources like acoustics mic,array mic ,throat mic, bone mic and video recorder. In this paper we implemented a multi-modal speaker identification system with three modality of speech as input, recorded from different microphones like air mic, throat mic and bone mic . we propose and claim an alternate way of recording the bone speech using a throat microphone and the results of a implemented speaker recognition using CNN and spectrogram is presented. The obtained results supports our claim to use the throat microphone as suitable mic to record the bone conducted speech and the accuracy of the speaker recognition system with signal speech recorded from air microphone get improved about 10% after including the other modality of speech like throat and bone speech along with the air conducted speech.

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