A fast parts-based approach to speaker verification using boosted slice classifiers

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 7, Issue 1 PART 2, 2012, Pages 241-254

  Roy, Anindya ^a,b   Magimai Doss, Mathew ^b   Marcel, Sébastien ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaboost; binary features; computational efficiency; feature selection; mobile biometrics; noise robustness; parts based approach; speaker verification (SV); speaker specific features

Indexed keywords

BINARY FEATURES; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; PARTS-BASED APPROACH; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER-SPECIFIC FEATURES;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; BIOMETRICS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84855921650     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2011.2166387     Document Type: Article

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