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A cochlear neuron based robust feature for speaker recognition

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In this paper, a robust feature for text-independent speaker recognition is proposed, which simulate the response mode of cochlear neurons in processing acoustic signal. The feature is derived from sparse coding coefficient which is computed on a learned over-complete dictionary, and the dictionary is considered similar to part of speech sensitive cochlear neurons. Furthermore, the feature is generated without dimension reducing and de-correlation. The robust feature is implemented to address the problem of mismatch situation between training and testing. Experiments show that the proposed feature outperforms the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) feature, especially under noisy environments, the equal error rate (EER) of the MFCC drops to 21.6% (10 dB) from 10.3% (25 dB), while the EER of the proposed feature is also 6.6% (10 dB) with no degradation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages5440-5443
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 22 May 201127 May 2011

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period22/05/1127/05/11

Keywords

  • Robust feature extraction
  • auditory
  • cochlear neurons
  • sparse coding
  • speaker recognition

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