NDLI: Histogram equalization using a reduced feature set of background speakers’ utterances for speaker recognition

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Author	Kim, Myung jae Yang, Il ho Kim, Min seok Yu, Ha jin
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	We propose a method for histogram equalization using supplement sets to improve the performance of speaker recognition when the training and test utterances are very short. The supplement sets are derived using outputs of selection or clustering algorithms from the background speakers’ utterances. The proposed approach is used as a feature normalization method for building histograms when there are insufficient input utterance samples. In addition, the proposed method is used as an i-vector normalization method in an i-vector-based probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) system, which is the current state-of-the-art for speaker verification. The ranks of sample values for histogram equalization are estimated in ascending order from both the input utterances and the supplement set. New ranks are obtained by computing the sum of different kinds of ranks. Subsequently, the proposed method determines the cumulative distribution function of the test utterance using the newly defined ranks. The proposed method is compared with conventional feature normalization methods, such as cepstral mean normalization (CMN), cepstral mean and variance normalization (MVN), histogram equalization (HEQ), and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) advanced front-end methods. In addition, performance is compared for a case in which the greedy selection algorithm is used with fuzzy C-means and K-means algorithms. The YOHO and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) databases are used in an evaluation in the feature space. The test sets are simulated by the Opus VoIP codec. We also use the 2008 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) corpus for the i-vector system. The results of the experimental evaluation demonstrate that the average system performance is improved when the proposed method is used, compared to the conventional feature normalization methods.
Starting Page	738
Ending Page	750
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	20959184
Journal	Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	20959230
Language	English
Publisher	Zhejiang University Press
Publisher Date	2017-05-27
Publisher Place	Hangzhou
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Speaker recognition Histogram equalization i-vector Computer Science Electrical Engineering Computer Hardware Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation Communications Engineering, Networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hardware and Architecture

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