Session Index and technical program

Monday 16.6

9:30
Opening
 

Keynote

Chair: Jean-Francois Bonastre
10:00
Speaker Recognition for Forensic Applications
Joseph Campbell

Calibration, Evaluation & Forensics 11:30-13:10

Chair: Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
11:30
Effects of the New Testing Paradigm of the 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S Greenberg, Vincent M. Stanford, John M. Howard, George R. Doddington, and John J. Godfrey
11:55
NFI-FRITS: A forensic speaker recognition database and some first experiments
David van der Vloed, Jos Bouten, and David van Leeuwen
12:20
A comparison of linear and non-linear calibrations for speaker recognition
Niko Brümmer, David van Leeuwen, and Albert Swart
12:45
Trial-based Calibration for Speaker Recognition in Unseen Conditions
Mitchell Mclaren, Aaron Lawson, Luciana Ferrer, Nicolas Scheffer, and Yun Lei

Speaker Modeling I 14:30-16:10

Chair: David van Leeuwen
14:30
Discriminative PLDA training with application-specific loss functions for speaker verification
Johan Rohdin, Sangeeta Biswas, and Koichi Shinoda
14:55
What are we missing with i-vectors? A perceptual analysis of i-vector-based falsely accepted trials
Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Juana Gil, Rubén Pérez, and Javier Franco-Pedroso
15:20
Exploring some limits of Gaussian PLDA modeling for i-vector distributions
Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Jean-François Bonastre, and Driss Matrouf
15:45
GMM Weights Adaptation Based on Subspace Approaches for Speaker Verification
Najim Dehak, Oldrich Plchot, Mohamad Hasan Bahari, Lukas Burget, Hugo Van hamme, and Réda Dehak

Posters 16:10-18:00

Chair: Michael Wagner
 
Local Variability Modeling for Text-Independent Speaker Verification
Liping Chen, Kong Aik Lee, Bin Ma, Wu Guo, Haizhou Li, and Lirong Dai
 
Towards Duration Invariance of i-Vector-based Adaptive Score Normalization
Andreas Nautsch, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch, Herbert Reininger, and Klaus Kasper
 
Text-Independent Speaker Verification via State Alignment
Zhi-Yi Li, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Wei-Wei Liu, Yao Tian and Jia Liu
 
Combining Joint Factor Analysis and iVectors for Robust Language Recognition
Brecht Desplanques, Kris Demuynck, and Jean-Pierre Martens
 
Spectral Sub-band Analysis of Speaker Verification Employing Narrowband and Wideband Speech
Laura Fernandez Gallardo, Michael Wagner, and Sebastian Möller
 
An Integration of Random Subspace Sampling and Fishervoice for Speaker Verification
Jinghua Zhong, Weiwu Jiang, Helen Meng, Na Li, and Zhifeng Li
 
Supra-Segmental Feature Based Speaker Trait Detection
Gang Liu, and John H.L. Hansen
 
i-Vector Selection for Effective PLDA Modeling in Speaker Recognition
Sangeeta Biswas, Johan Rohdin, and Koichi Shinoda
 
Voice as New Generation Password (industry poster)
Martti Pitkanen, Robert Parts, Anne Parts
 
Swiss French Regional Accent Identification
Alexandros Lazaridis, Elie Khoury, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Mathieu Avanzi, Sébastien Marcel, and Philip N. Garner
 
Allpass modelling of Fourier phase for speaker verification
Karthika Vijayan, Vinay Kumar, and K Sri Rama Murty
 
Investigating State-of-the-Art Speaker Verification in the case of Unlabeled Development Data
Gang Liu, Chengzhu Yu, Abhinav Misra, Navid Shokouhi, and John Hansen
 
Supervised/Unsupervised Voice Activity Detectors for Text-dependent Speaker Recognition on the RSR2015 Corpus
Md Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Pierre Ouellet, Themos Stafylakis, and Pierre Dumouchel
 
A Latent Dirichlet Allocation Based Front-End for Speaker Verification
Yusuf Ziya Işık, Hakan Erdogan, and Ruhi Sarıkaya
 
Comparison of human listeners and speaker verification systems using voice mimicry data
Rosa Gonzalez Hautamäki, Tomi Kinnunen, Ville Hautamäki, and Anne-Maria Laukkanen

Tuesday 17.6

Language Recognition 9:30-11:10

Chair: Haizhou Li
9:30
NIST Language Recognition Evaluation – Past and Future
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, John M. Howard, George R. Doddington, and John J. Godfrey
9:55
Robust Language Recognition Based on Diverse Features
Qian Zhang, Gang Liu, and John Hansen
10:20
Speaker-basis Accent Clustering Using Invariant Structure Analysis and the Speech Accent Archive
Nobuaki Minematsu, Shun Kasahara, Takehiko Makino, Daisuke Saito, and Keikichi Hirose
10:45
Multiclass Discriminative Training of i-vector Language Recognition
Alan Mccree

Speaker Diarization 11:40-13:20

Chair: Nicholas Evans
11:40
Telephone Conversation Speaker Diarization Using Mealy-HMMs
Itshak Lapidot, Jean-Francois Bonastre, and Samy Bengio
12:05
Person Instance Graphs for Named Speaker Identification in TV Broadcast
Hervé Bredin, Antoine Laurent, Achintya Sarkar, Viet-Bac Le, Sophie Rosset, and Claude Barras
12:30
Recent Improvements on ILP-based Clustering for Broadcast News Speaker Diarization
Grégor Dupuy, Sylvain Meignier, Paul Deléglise, and Yannick Estève
12:55
Modeling Overlapping Speech using Vector Taylor Series
Pranay Dighe, Marc Ferras, and Herve Bourlard

Keynote

Chair: John H.L. Hansen
14:30
Speaking in adverse conditions: from behavioural observations to intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications
Martin Cooke

Text-dependent Speaker Recognition 16:00-17:15

Chair: Gerard Chollet
16:00
Joint Factor Analysis for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification
Patrick Kenny, Themos Stafylakis, Alam Jahangir, Pierre Ouellet, and Marcel Kockmann
16:25
Short-Duration Speaker Modelling with Phone Adaptive Training
Giovanni Soldi, Simon Bozonnet, Federico Alegre, Christophe Beaugeant, and Nicholas Evans
16:50
Text-Dependent Speaker Verification System in VHF Communication Channel
Changhuai You, Kong Aik Lee, Bin Ma, and Haizhou Li

Wednesday 18.6

Nist I-Vector Special Session 9:00-12:00

Chair: Craig Greenberg and Douglas Reynolds
9:00
The NIST 2014 Speaker Recognition i-vector Machine Learning Challenge
Craig Greenberg, Désiré Bansé, George Doddington, Daniel Garcia-Romero, John Godfrey, Tomi Kinnunen, Alvin Martin, Alan McCree, Mark Przybocki, and Douglas Reynolds
9:20
STC Speaker Recognition System for the NIST i-Vector Challenge
Sergey Novoselov, Timur Pekhovsky, and Konstantin Simonchik
9:40
Incorporating Duration Information into I-Vector-Based Speaker Recognition Systems
Bostjan Vesnicer, Jerneja Zganec-Gros, Simon Dobrisek, and Vitomir Struc
10:00
Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance for Robust I-vector Based Speaker Recognition
Abbas Khosravani, and Mohammad Mahdi Homayounpour
10:20
Hierarchical speaker clustering methods for the NIST i-vector Challenge
Elie Khoury, Laurent El Shafey, Marc Ferras, and Sebastien Marcel

Thursday 19.6

Keynote

Chair: Patrick Kenny
10:00
Large Scale Learning of a Joint Embedding Space
Samy Bengio

Speaker Modeling II 11:30-13:10

Chair: Niko Brümmer
11:30
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for I-Vector Speaker Recognition
Daniel Garcia-Romero, Alan McCree, Stephen Shum, Niko Brümmer, and Carlos Vaquero
11:55
Unsupervised Clustering Approaches for Domain Adaptation in Speaker Recognition Systems
Stephen Shum, Douglas Reynolds, Daniel Garcia-Romero, and Alan McCree
12:20
Generative pairwise models for speaker recognition
Sandro Cumani, and Pietro Laface
12:45
Compensating Inter-Dataset Variability in PLDA Hyper-Parameters for Robust Speaker Recognition
Hagai Aronowitz

Neural Nets for Speaker and Language Modeling 14:30-16:10

Chair: Alan McCree
14:30
Application of Convolutional Neural Networks to Language Identification in Noisy Conditions
Yun Lei, Luciana Ferrer, Aaron Lawson, Mitchell McLaren, and Nicolas Scheffer
14:55
Deep Neural Networks for extracting Baum-Welch statistics for Speaker Recognition
Patrick Kenny, Vishwa Gupta, Themos Stafylakis, Pierre Ouellet, and Jahangir Alam
15:20
Neural Network Bottleneck Features for Language Identification
Pavel Matejka, Le Zhang, Tim Ng, Sri Harish Mallidi, Ondrej Glembek, Jeff Ma, and Bing Zhang
15:45
i-Vector Modeling with Deep Belief Networks for Multi-Session Speaker Recognition
Omid Ghahabi, and Javier Hernando

Closing

16:10
Closing, Awards & Odyssey 2016