Speaker Verification
Speaker verification (SV) aims to automatically authenticate a person's identity based on their voice, focusing on creating robust and accurate systems. Current research emphasizes improving the discriminative power of speaker embeddings through techniques like contrastive learning, disentangling confounding factors such as age and channel variations, and leveraging powerful pre-trained models such as WavLM and Whisper. These advancements are crucial for enhancing security in various applications, from access control to forensic investigations, and are driving ongoing efforts to improve robustness against spoofing attacks and noisy conditions.
Papers
Benchmark Dataset Dynamics, Bias and Privacy Challenges in Voice Biometrics Research
Casandra Rusti, Anna Leschanowsky, Carolyn Quinlan, Michaela Pnacek, Lauriane Gorce, Wiebke Hutiri
Margin-Mixup: A Method for Robust Speaker Verification in Multi-Speaker Audio
Jenthe Thienpondt, Nilesh Madhu, Kris Demuynck