Incorporating model-specific score distribution in speaker verification systems

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 594-606

  Poh, Norman ^a   Kittler, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biometric authentication; Score normalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIORS; BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS; FUSION CLASSIFIERS; FUSION SYSTEMS; LEVEL FUSIONS; LOG-LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; SCORE NORMALIZATION; SPEAKER MODELS; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM OUTPUTS; TRAINING DATUM; USER MODELS;

AUTHENTICATION; CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 62249116441     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.916525     Document Type: Article

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