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Dereverberation and Beamforming in Far-Field Speaker Recognition

MOŠNER, L.; MATĚJKA, P.; NOVOTNÝ, O.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Dereverberation and Beamforming in Far-Field Speaker Recognition. In Proceedings of ICASSP 2018. Calgary: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2018. p. 5254-5258. ISBN: 978-1-5386-4658-8.
Czech title
Odstranění dozvuku a směrování paprsku pro rozpoznávání mluvčího ze vzdálených mikrofonů
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Mošner Ladislav, Ing. (DCGM)
Matějka Pavel, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Novotný Ondřej, Ing., Ph.D.
Černocký Jan, prof. Dr. Ing. (DCGM)
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Keywords

Speaker recognition, microphone array,beamforming, dereverberation, audio retransmission

Abstract

This paper deals with far-field speaker recognition. On a corpusof NIST SRE 2010 data retransmitted in a real roomwith multiple microphones, we first demonstrate how roomacoustics cause significant degradation of state-of-the-art ivectorbased speaker recognition system. We then investigateseveral techniques to improve the performances ranging fromprobabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) re-training,through dereverberation, to beamforming. We found thatweighted prediction error (WPE) based dereverberation combinedwith generalized eigenvalue beamformer with powerspectraldensity (PSD) weighting masks generated by neuralnetworks (NN) provides results approaching the clean closemicrophonesetup. Further improvement was obtained byre-training PLDA or the mask-generating NNs on simulatedtarget data. The work shows that a speaker recognition systemworking robustly in the far-field scenario can be developed.

Published
2018
Pages
5254–5258
Proceedings
Proceedings of ICASSP 2018
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Calgary, CA
ISBN
978-1-5386-4658-8
Publisher
IEEE Signal Processing Society
Place
Calgary
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462365
UT WoS
000446384605085
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85054214985
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT155039,
  author="Ladislav {Mošner} and Pavel {Matějka} and Ondřej {Novotný} and Jan {Černocký}",
  title="Dereverberation and Beamforming in Far-Field Speaker Recognition",
  booktitle="Proceedings of ICASSP 2018",
  year="2018",
  pages="5254--5258",
  publisher="IEEE Signal Processing Society",
  address="Calgary",
  doi="10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462365",
  isbn="978-1-5386-4658-8",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11717/"
}
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